 | Electronic journals - 1926 - 564 pages
...epitomised by the old Shepherd in The Winter's Tale — " I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." If the young Shakespeare was taken into the family of any of the great gentlemen who lived near Stratford,... | |
 | Derek Traversi - Literary Criticism - 1953 - 286 pages
...once more to the theme of developing maturity which plays so important a part in The Winter's Tale. 'I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty,...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.' This reference to the interval of disturbed 'blood' between the innocence of youth (already evoked,... | |
 | Katherine Dalsimer - Psychology - 1986 - 164 pages
...reality, and that this resonance contributes to the power of the work over the imagination of the reader. I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty,...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting — [III. iii. 59-63] These words were written in 1611. Shakespeare's shepherd identifies the period... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...banned drink we'd still fight. English football fan, 1985 I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. Shepherd, The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet It would surely... | |
 | Frank McLynn - History - 1989 - 434 pages
...through the Whole 1sland of Great Britain 1 would there were no age between ten and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, 1H.iii,58 Nor should we listen to those who say, 'The voice... | |
 | Mary Ellen Colten, Susan Gore - Social Science - 348 pages
...this to say about the adolescent years: I would there were no age between ten and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there...wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, (and) fighting. Although there is no denying the timelessness of his words, it is important to remember... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...(1854-91). French poet. Roman, set. 1 (repr. in Collected Poems, cd. by Oliver Bernard, 1 962). 13 es' (1934). 19 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatis!, poet. Shepherd, in The Winter's Tale, act 3, so... | |
 | Ordelle G. Hill - Literary Collections - 1993 - 268 pages
...is marked by the same tone, if not the same type of complaint, seen in the Second Shepherds' Play: "I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty,...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." His incredulous wonder at seeing the abandoned baby echoes that of the three shepherds at Mak's cottage:... | |
 | Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...whip. This, surely, is what the old shepherd in The Winter's Tale is grumbling about when he wishes there were "no age between ten and three-and-twenty,...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting" (3.3.58). The old shepherd's upper limit appears to derive from contemporary work conditions as well.... | |
 | Игорь Семенович Кон - Communism and sex - 1995 - 362 pages
...heterogeneous a country as Russia as we face the twenty-first century. Chapter Eleven TEENAGERS AT RISK I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty,...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting — " — William Shakespeare A Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 3 Irina Pavlovna, a neighbor who shares... | |
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I would, there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest : for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. 
