 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 228 pàgines
...their course and lighted 80 The little O, the earth. Dolabella Most sovereign creature— Cleopatra His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm Crested...friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, 85 He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn it was That grew... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - 2002 - 368 pàgines
...thunder-music contrast — such as occurs throughout Coriolanus — in Cleopatra's dream of Antony: ... his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres,...quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. (v. ii. 83) Here love's voice, as often elsewhere, is compared with the spheral music of the universe.... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 208 pàgines
...there are all sorts of polarities juxtaposed. Cleopatra defines one of them in her dream of Antony: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres,...when he meant to quail, and shake the orb, He was as ratding thunder. (v, ii, 83-6) Notice how Irene Worth's voice subdy reflects the tone-qualities her... | |
 | David Wiles - 2003 - 332 pàgines
...kept their course and lighted The little O, o'th earth . . . His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm Crested the world; his voice was propertied As...quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder . . ,8' it is easy for a modern audience in the reconstructed Globe to grasp the metaphors of scale.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 224 pàgines
...little O, the earth. DOLABELLA Most sovereign creature CLEOPATRA His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm Crested the world; his voice was propertied As...friends But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, 85 He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't - an autumn 'twas That grew... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pàgines
...heavens; and therein stuck A sun and moon, which kept their course and lighted The little O, the earth ... His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested...'twas That grew the more by reaping: his delights Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above The element they lived in: in his livery Walk'd crowns and... | |
 | Frederick William Sternfeld - 2005 - 392 pàgines
...bound, in modesty, to recognize that the most glorious music is the music of Shakespeare's verse : His legs bestrid the ocean, his rear'd arm Crested...quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. Antony, the king, and Cleopatra, the queen, redeemed through death, regain their regal stature. Their... | |
 | Ernest Schanzer - 2005 - 216 pàgines
...contrast of moods, is reminiscent of Cleopatra's description of Antony in her great speech to Dolabella: His voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres,...friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, 1 A neat epitome of the opposed attitudes to Falstaff, presented throughout the two parts of the play,... | |
 | Martin Lings - 2006 - 228 pàgines
...the Divine Spirit. A sun and moon, which kept their course, and lighted The little O, the earth . . . His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested...in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping . . . Think you there was, or might be, such a man As this I dreamt of? DOLABELLA. Gentle madam, no.... | |
 | Jill Line - 2006 - 196 pàgines
...and therein stuck A sun and moon, which kept their course, and lighted The little O, the earth. . . . His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm Crested...thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an Antony it was That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like; they showed his back above... | |
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His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world: * his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail' and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. 
