 Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Illustrated ; Embracing a Life of ... - Page 62by William Shakespeare - 1850 - 38 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ekbert Faas - Art - 1986 - 244 pages
...than reality itself, an insight summed up in Prospero's wellknown speech after they have vanished: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
 | Peter Homans - Psychology - 1989 - 420 pages
...themselves are not mentioned, we can read them "between the lines." As he explains to Ferdinand: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Science - 1990 - 185 pages
...central issue of the present age. But the mood of The Tempest is one of farewell: Our revels are now ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
 | Christoph Irmscher - American poetry - 1992 - 414 pages
...übrigens wie bei Stevens in architektonischer Metaphorik beschrieben wird, als solche entlarven: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...very end of harvest! Scarcity and want shall shun you; Ceres' blessing so is on you. (IV, i) 163 Our . the great globe itself — Yea, all which it inherit — shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial... | |
 | Walter J. Moore, Walter John Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 532 pages
...German translation). Perhaps he read the words of Prospero, so close to his own way of thinking: Our revels now are ended . . . These our actors, As I...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...face shows. He turns to Ferdinand, sees that the latter is frightened, and immediately becomes genial. You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 132 pages
...scene 1) Prospero has abruptly dismissed the masque. Ferdinand looks dismayed, and Prospero says: Our revels now are ended. These our actors (As I foretold...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
 | Wendell John Coats - Political Science - 1994 - 180 pages
...and aesthetic language, though The Tempest conveys this idea as well. Prospero. Our revels are now ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all...vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces. . . . Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not... | |
 | M. Victoria Guerin - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 358 pages
...all, to bring delight in the hearing, as if the author said to each member of the assembled court: be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
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