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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. For his bounty, There was no winter in 't,... "
Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays,: As They are Now Performed at the ... - Page 353
by William Shakespeare - 1774
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One Touch of Shakespeare: Letters of Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris ...

Joseph Crosby - 1986 - 368 pages
...requires Theobald's (wasn't it Theobald, or was it Rowe?) correction. Look at the whole metaphor: "As for his bounty There was no Winter in't: An Autumn 'twas, that grew the more by reaping." I can perceive no sense in "An Antony it was"; because it was not "Antony," but his "bounty," that...
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Themes in Drama: Volume 12, Drama and Philosophy

James Redmond - 1990 - 250 pages
...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. For his bounty, There was no winter in 't: an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping: his delights Were dolphin-like, they show'd his...
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Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays ...

Janet Adelman - 1992 - 396 pages
...infinitely renewable; and she specifically disclaims the winter-scarcity of the servant's seasonal analogy: For his bounty, There was no winter in't: an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping. (5.2.86-88) We may, of course, choose not to accept Cleopatra's vision of Antony; the play seems to...
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Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic

Mihoko Suzuki - 1989 - 292 pages
...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. For his bounty, There was no winter in't: an autumn it was That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above The...
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Rabindranath Tagore: A Centenary, Volumes 1861-1961

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan - 1992 - 532 pages
...these later volumes. What Shakespeare says of one of his characters is eminently applicable to Tagore: For his bounty, There was no winter in't, an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping. In the last six years of his life he published fifteen volumes of verse, three dancedramas, three books...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake , T T in 't; an autumn it was That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphinlike; they showed his...
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Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays

Carol Thomas Neely - 1985 - 300 pages
...associations with calculation, rigidity, and greed, becomes one with personal generosity and sexual largesse: "For his bounty, / There was no winter in't: an autumn 'twas / That grew the more by reaping. ... In his livery / Walked crowns and crownets: realms and islands were / As plates dropped from his...
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Reclamations of Shakespeare

A. J. Hoenselaars - 1994 - 324 pages
...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. For his bounty. There was no winter in *t; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping: his delights Were dolphin-like, they show'd his...
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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender

Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - 1996 - 346 pages
...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. For his bounty,...in't: an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping. . . . (5.2.83-88) Here Antony becomes the kind of wonder that Cleopatra was in Enobarbus's barge speech,...
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Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime

Warren Stevenson - 1996 - 166 pages
...a bounteous lover, as androgynous and sublime as Cleopatra's vision of Mark Antony after his death: For his bounty There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping. Conclusion WE HAVE OBSERVED THAT THE MODE AND MOTIF OF THE ANdrogynous sublime constitutes a major,...
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