 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Portraits, American - 1862 - 686 pages
...to accept life as a favor granted and not a penalty imposed. Happy indeed is he ' That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.' " Returning to Story's professional life, we find him adding to his labors on the bench such services... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 560 pages
...stones, and good in everything. Ami. 1 would not change it : Happy is your grace, Than can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Duke 8. Come, shall we go and kill us venison ? And yet it irks me. the poor dappled fools, — Being... | |
 | England - 1884 - 990 pages
...books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything," and has in fact translated "The stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style," that any regrets for his lost wealth and honours are to all appearance dead. Unlike Prospero, he shows... | |
 | Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...felicitous verbal rendering of the foresters' present circumstances: Happy is your Grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. The 'translation' of the landscape and its language - its 'lexical' items (the scenic components) with... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - Drama - 1985 - 204 pages
...Duke in Arden are less the gift of nature than of imagination: Happy is your Grace That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. (Il.i. 18-20) The "old custom" of conventional pastoral sentiments offers the Duke a way to make a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 134 pages
...stones, and good in everything. I would not change it. AMIENS Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. 20 DUKE Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 262 pages
...make A better life. — Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. — Amiens, in As Tou Like It The echoes of Antony and Cleopatra that haunt this study were meant to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...has asked a question. Is no 12 met of (perhaps both 'ways of life one to answer?' That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. » DUKE Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native... | |
 | Patricia A. Parker - Drama - 1996 - 408 pages
...into something that claims to escape the "penalty of Adam" ("Happy is your Grace, / That can translate the stubbornness of fortune / Into so quiet and so sweet a style," II. i. 18-20), but also in its ironic echoing in Touchstone's more threatening translation ("in the... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...can make good use of adversity. 'Happy is your grace', says Amiens to the Duke, 'That can translate the stubbornness of fortune into so quiet and so sweet a style.' This is a pervasive idea in As You Like It, projected chiefly in the picture of Orlando imagining that... | |
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Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. 
