 | William Shakespeare - 1900 - 252 pages
...spoke, and panted, That she did make defect perfection, And, breathless, power breathe forth. Mec. Now Antony must leave her utterly. Eno. Never ; he...cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry 80 But that it would have made a vacuum. The Poet probably had in mind the old philosophic axiom, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1901 - 606 pages
...spoke, and panted, That she did make defect perfection, And, breathless, power breathe forth. Mac. Now Antony must leave her utterly. Eno. Never ; he...cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry 240 Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 620 pages
...spoke, and panted, That she did make defect perfection, And, breathless, power breathe forth. Mae. Now Antony must leave her utterly. Eno. Never; he...cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry 240 Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless... | |
 | Dieter Mehl - Drama - 1986 - 286 pages
...traditional cliche, be it in terms of conventional love poetry or of moral evaluation: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other...that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. (11.2.240-5) This glowing description can hardly be interpreted as either a celebration or a condemnation... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - Shakespeare, William - 1993 - 164 pages
...coarse-mouthed cynic; he, too, can feel her witchery. MECENAS. Now Antony must leave her utterly. ENOBARBUS. Never! He will not. Age cannot wither her, nor custom...that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. With this in our ears, Enter Antony, Gesar, Octavia between them. and we hear Octavia (the difference!)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...perfection, And, breathless, power breathe forth. MAECENAS Now Antony must leave her utterly. ENOBARB. Never; he will not. Age cannot wither her, nor custom...that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. MAECENAS If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle The heart of Antony, Octavia is A blessed lottery to... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - Drama - 1985 - 300 pages
...compelling sexual power more directly, he still renders it as unthreatening as possible: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other...that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. [II.ii.237-42] Her mutability is translated into the "infinite variety" that guarantees perpetual pleasure;... | |
 | David Duff - History - 1994 - 304 pages
...enchantress brings a catastrophe whose global proportions are constantly stressed. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other...that the holy priests Bless her, when she is riggish. in, iii. lines 235-40) Is this the character of the attraction which Wordsworth detects in the Revolutionary... | |
 | John Gillies - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 312 pages
...conventionally rhetorical terms in his more conventional vignettes of Cleopatra: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other...that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. (2.2.241-6) The untranslatable mystery - the autonomy - of Cleopatra's difference is what is at issue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...panted, That she did make defect perfection And, breathless, pow'r breathe forth. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other...that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. 10 I dreamt there was an Emperor Antony. O, such another sleep, that I might see But such another man.... | |
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Never; he will not; Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : Other women cloy The appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. For vilest things Become themselves in her ; that the holy priests Bless her when... 
