 | Janet Adelman - 1992 - 379 pages
...infinitely renewable; and she specifically disclaims the winter-scarcity of the servant's seasonal analogy: For his bounty, There was no winter in't: an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping. (5.2.86-88) We may, of course, choose not to accept Cleopatra's vision of Antony; the play seems to... | |
 | Richard Todd, Douglas C. Wilson - 1992 - 152 pages
...following lines from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in which Cleopatra eulogizes her dead lover: For his bounty, There was no winter in't: an autumn...more by reaping: his delights Were dolphin-like, they show'd his back above The elements they lived in: in his livery Walk'd crown and crownets: realms and... | |
 | Lars Engle - 1993 - 266 pages
...spheres, and that to friends: But when he meant to quail, and shake the orb. He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't: an autumn...more by reaping: his delights Were dolphin-like, they show'd his back above The element they lived in: in his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets: realms and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 141 pages
...111 and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn...more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like, they showed his back above The element they lived in. 132 In his livery 90 Walked crowns and crownets; realms... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - 1985 - 261 pages
...associations with calculation, rigidity, and greed, becomes one with personal generosity and sexual largesse: "For his bounty, / There was no winter in't: an autumn 'twas / That grew the more by reaping. ... In his livery / Walked crowns and crownets: realms and islands were / As plates dropped from his... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 224 pages
...bold attempts to follow F'S powerful 'Anthony it was' by letting his bounty be described as having 'no winter in't; an autumn 'twas / That grew the more by reaping.' Generally, he keeps his text as close as possible to the Folio, to the extent of often following its... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - 1995 - 294 pages
...spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn...more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like; they showed his back above The element they lived in. In his livery Walked crowns and crownets. Realms and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 128 pages
...spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't: an autumn...more by reaping: his delights Were dolphin-like, they showed his back above The element they lived in: in his livery Walked crowns and crownets: realms and... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 230 pages
...in't; an [autumn] it was That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like, they show'd his back above The element they liv'd in. In his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from his pocket. (5.2.86) Cleopatra has the same alchemical power as... | |
 | Gordon Williams - 1996 - 274 pages
...which 'grew marvellous long, fat, . . . stirring and Crest-risen'.38 Cleopatra maintains the pattern: For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn...more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like, they showed his back above The element they lived in. (V.ii.85) Bounty, sexual largesse, this was the strong-backed... | |
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