 | Franck Lessay - English drama - 1999 - 204 pages
...vers qui ouvrent Love's Labour's Lost, prononcés par Ferdinand, roi de Navarre, sont évocateurs : "Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives / Live registered upon our brazen tombs [...] / And make us heirs of all eternity" (1.1.1-7). L'art funéraire de la Renaissance exprime un souci d'identité... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...words indicate that the reason for his withdrawal from the world is based on pride and selfinterest : Let Fame, that all hunt after in their lives. Live...of death : When spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...BEROWNE, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAINE. KING. ET fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live register'd e, AndnmiTake Th'endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen And make... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...Academy in the play's opening lines: Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us, in the disgrace...of death, When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 212 pages
...play, with the King of Navarre looking forward lightheartedly to that Fame which shall Live register'd upon our brazen tombs, And then grace us in the disgrace of death. The light conceit conveys the care-free mood, when death is very far away and quite unreal. The King... | |
 | David Glimp - Demography - 2003 - 264 pages
...projects the benefits from such ascesis: Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace...of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - Literary Collections - 2003 - 378 pages
...explains the purpose of his academy: Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs, And then grace us in the disgrace...of death; When spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature - 2004 - 196 pages
...what makes life worth living and calls his nobility together to pursue a course of timeless education. Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live...of death When, spite of cormorant devouring time, Th' endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And... | |
 | Christoph Loreck - Endymion (Greek mythology) - 2005 - 236 pages
...Shakespeare: Let Fame, which all hunt after in their Lives, Live register'd upon our brazen tombs, And so grace us in the disgrace of death: When spite of cormorant...time The endeavour of this present breath may buy That Honour which shall bate his Skythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.25 It is obvious... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Drama - 2004 - 198 pages
...the "little academe, Still and contemplative in living art," where their fame as scholars will "Love registered upon our brazen tombs, And then grace us in the disgrace of death" that they shall live eternally (1.1. 13- 14, 2-3). Hamlet may have dismissed his "saws of books, all... | |
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The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors ! — for so you are, That -war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's... 
