 | SparkNotes - 2004 - 554 pages
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 | Robert Ornstein, Evelyn Gajowski - 2004 - 298 pages
...pastoral. fends country living and attacks the court, with its artificiality, danger, and competitiveness: "Hath not old custom made this life more sweet / Than...woods / More free from peril than the envious court?" (2.1.2-4; emphasis mine). Any fear that his forest society might merely reproduce structures of authority,... | |
 | George Dekker - 2005 - 314 pages
...satisfaction with this mode of living is suggested by Radcliffe's chapter epigraph from As You Like It. Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we not the penalty of Adam, The season's difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's... | |
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Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons... 
