 | Languages, Modern - 1863 - 500 pages
...pay 'your present debts. Timón of Athens Act 2 Scene 2. Caesar. I should have known no lesti : — It hath been taught us from the primal state, That...was wish'd. until he were; And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved, till ne'er worth love, Comes dear'd. by being lack'd. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag... | |
 | G. F. Sargent, William Shakespeare - 1846 - 292 pages
...discontents repair, and men's reports Give him much wrong'd. Goes. I should have known no less :— It hath been taught us from the primal state, That...was wish'd, until he were : And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes fear'd by being lack'd. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1863 - 1458 pages
...To pay your present debts. Timon of Athens Act 2 Scene 2. Caesar. I should have known no less : — . F z T H >jL H #! Z ! fpf ̏% g \ VӼ E b % h SŅ 5 M{w 1 o$6" Ul ̒If h do no er loved, till ne'er worth love, Comes dear'd, by being lack d. This common body, Like to a vagabond... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...discontents repair, and men's reports Give him much wrong'd. Ctf>. I should have known no less : — 1#1$1<4J4>4(1 hack, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. Mess. Caesar, I bring thee word, M enecrates... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - Drama - 1990 - 260 pages
...this perspective, the play's audience and readers are similar to the fickle Roman populace, which, "Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, / Goes to...lackeying the varying tide, / To rot itself with motion" (1.4.45-47). But if such an approach admirably measures the play's ambiguity and "infinite variety,"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...until he were; And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared by being lacked. 41 This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the...lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. MESSENG. Caesar, I bring thee word Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates, Make the sea serve them, which... | |
 | Gordon Williams - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 298 pages
...against the triumvirs; but his image of the fickle plebs betrays how his mind still runs on Antony: This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the...lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. (I.iv.44) Indeed, his very next words, delayed by the arrival of more news, are: 'Antony, / Leave thy... | |
 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - Drama - 1996 - 346 pages
...Antony's "dotage," which "o'erflows the measure," or that of the fickle populace as Caesar describes it: This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the...lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. (1.4.44-47) Hoping to rely on Antony's leadership and soldiership, Caesar attempts to solidify their... | |
 | Cynthia Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 268 pages
...and Egypt, as could Caesar's description to Lepidus of how popular allegiance has shifted to Pompey: It hath been taught us from the primal state That...till ne'er worth love, Comes dear'd by being lack'd. (1.4.41^*4) Pompey himself mentions the fleetingness of desire and its objects when he complains to... | |
 | M. Owen Lee - Music - 1998 - 258 pages
...This shifting, dissolving Antony is, to Roman eyes, an 'ebbed man,' like a swaying tropical plant that 'upon the stream, / Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide / To rot itself with motion.' Can Verdi match this? He likely responded more to the exaltation and despair in such passages than... | |
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It hath been taught us from the primal state That he which is was wish'd until he were; And the ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth love, Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying... 
