 | William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern1 instances, And so he plays his part: The sixth age shifts with him 1 1 Lord. Behind the tuft of pines I met...blest !• — There may be in the cup A spider st strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sane eyes, sans taste,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 244 pages
...broken voice should remind us of a similar description in Jaques's seven 'ages': The sixt age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles...childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. (As You Like It, 2.7.157-63) Can Falstaffs broken voice be anything but this?8 He may seem older in... | |
 | Michael G. Kammen - Art - 1987 - 364 pages
...and slipper'd pantaloon. With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big...Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. Although the seven-stage rendering may be better known today, it was no more popular in Renaissance... | |
 | Kenneth Ewart Boulding - Political Science - 1990 - 268 pages
...POWER IN OLD AGE Shakespeare's view of old age is not particularly attractive. "The sixth age shifts / Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, / With spectacles...childish treble, pipes / And whistles in his sound." Respect for age, and the power, therefore, that age may give, varies from one society to another. Even... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age sifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles...whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventual history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion — Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans... | |
 | Jonathan D. Spence - History - 1992 - 420 pages
...K'ang-hsi in old age are pitiable proof of the truth in Shakespeare's words : "The sixth age shifts / Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, / With spectacles...shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, / Turning again towards childish treble, pipes / And whistles in his sound." K'ang-hsi does not seem to have had the... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon [dotard], With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful...Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It, act II, scene vii, lines 139-66. Jaques is speaking. 1139 . .... | |
 | Joy Chaitin, Sarah Stevens-Estabrook - Musicals - 1995 - 52 pages
...formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles...whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste,... | |
 | Simone de Beauvoir - Family & Relationships - 1996 - 596 pages
...already dead, pale, slow, heavy and as dull as lead. And he described it cruelly in As You Like It: . . . the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles...Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing, t In the tragedies he gave some old people nobility of character John of Gaunt in Richard II, for example,... | |
 | Jorge Arditi - History - 1998 - 334 pages
...formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles...whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste,... | |
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With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances * ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world... 
