 And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.  The Sale-room - Pàgina 321817Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Wendy Wall - 2002 - 312 pàgines
...and infantilization: "The language I have learnt these forty years, / My native English, now I must forego, /And now my tongue's use is to me no more / Than an unstringed viol or a harp. "Mowbray then cites his regression to a pettie (a boy who knows English but not yet Latin): "I am too... | |
 | Hannibal Hamlin - 2004 - 310 pàgines
...language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo, And now my tongue s use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up Or being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony. Within my mouth... | |
 | Laurie Maguire - 2003 - 260 pàgines
...of language: "The language I have learnt these forty years, / My native English, now I must forgo, / And now my tongue's use is to me no more / Than an unstringed viol or a harp" (RII 1.3.159-62). Names are a subset of language. One of the first human acts in Genesis is naming,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 355 pàgines
...— 1.1.183-84] Truth hath a quiet breast. [Mowbray — 1 .3.96] My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp . . . [Mowbray— 1 .3. 1 62-64] All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 355 pàgines
...— 1.1.183-84] Truth hath a quiet breast. [Mowbray — 1 .3.96] My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp . . . [Mowbray— 1 .3. 1 62-64] All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and... | |
 | Vicente Lloréns, Manuel Aznar Soler - 2006 - 470 pàgines
...highness hands. The languaje I have learn'd these forty years, My native English, now I mustforego: And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a canning instrument cased up, Or, being open, put into the hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony:... | |
 | Thomas Page Anderson - 2006 - 252 pàgines
...also demonstrates the manipulation of the exigencies of politics to silence. Mowbray tells the king: "And now my tongue's use is to me no more / Than an unstringed viol or a harp" (1.3.161-2), and he laments his exile from his native land: "Within my mouth you have enjailed my tongue,... | |
 | Megan S. Lloyd - 2007 - 230 pàgines
...appeared in Volume 2, no. 2 (Summer 2002) of The North American Journal of Welsh Studies. Introduction tongue's use is to me no more / Than an unstringed...or a harp, / Or like a cunning instrument cased up . . . / Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue" (Richard II I. iii. 161- 63,166).1 So mourns exiled... | |
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