 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...forever. I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and azured vault Set roaring war — to the dread rattling...my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure. (5- 1- 41-51) This striking evocation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 436 pages
...to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, 40 Weak ministers though ye be, I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called...my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic 50 I here abjure: and, when I have required Some... | |
 | B. J. Gibbons - History - 2001 - 212 pages
...'Lord and commander of these ements'. 1 Shakespeare's Prospero boasted about his control over nature: I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the...and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong based promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up The pine and cedar. 2 hether... | |
 | Julie Sanders - Drama - 2001 - 274 pages
...distinguishing him from, Sycorax. This reinforces the parental instincts Prospero appears to feel for Caliban. I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the...my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art. (5.1.41-50) The same speech forms an epigraph to a later section of... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...invests with contemporary meanings Prospero's appeal to an army of spirits to come to his assistance: I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the...plucked up The pine and cedar. Graves at my command " Henry Cockeram, The English dictionarit (London, 1626; STC 5462), sig. T4V. 20 Thomas Tymme, A silver... | |
 | Philip R. Hardie - History - 2002 - 424 pages
...the end of The Tempest, when Prospero renounces his magic art. He quotes and revives Ovid's Medea: the strong-based promontory Have I made shake, and...my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure. (5.1.46-51) The passage stands out... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...into which he has introduced them. In short, he abandons the secret wisdom that has made him godlike. I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the...my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure. (5.1.41-51) If these words belong... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Castaways - 2006 - 72 pages
...bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt tine green sea and the a^ured vault Set roaring war. To the dread rattling thunder...at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let'em forth my so potent art. You elves of hills, streams, lakes and woods, as well as you that lightly... | |
 | John Ralston Saul - Philosophy - 2006 - 513 pages
...bedimmed The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder...plucked up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent Art. That's what we teachers do, is it... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2006 - 384 pages
...mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war; to the dread-rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout...my command Have waked their sleepers, ope'd and let 'em forth By my so potent art. (5.1.41-50) His subsequent promise to Alonso to 'bring forth a wonder'... | |
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twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt - the strong-based promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up The pine and cedar; graves... 
