 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...developing the kind of reflective and intellectual style we see in Ulysses' speech to Achilles on Time: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 228 pages
...which the sequence of images of over-eating, uncurrent coin and beggary anticipate Ulysses' speech 'Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion' (3.3.145-6). Dio remarks that Perseus carried in his wallet the Gorgon's head with which to turn men... | |
 | Susan J. Rosowski - 1996 - 316 pages
...humanity's fickle memory, noting that the public quickly forgets anyone whom it cannot see: "Titne hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, / A great-sized monster of ingratitudes" (3.3.146-47, emphasis added). We cannot determine whether or not... | |
 | A. T. Robertson - 2003 - 422 pages
...that they were not so much \f\pcn (spouseless) as ттfjpаi (pouchless). He cites also Shakespeare10 "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion."" the seventy (Luke 10:7), only with the term meaning "reward," Luабoû, instead of "food," тpофг|с.... | |
 | Michael Spitzer - 2004 - 392 pages
...considers a well-known metaphor from Troilus and Cressida, by which Shakespeare compares time to a beggar: "time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back wherein he puts alms for oblivion" ( 164). In seeing time as a beggar, we must suspend its normal reference to physical reality in order... | |
 | Colin Butler - 2005 - 217 pages
...refreshed. In Troilus and Cressida, Achilles asks, "What, are my deeds forgot?" and Ulysses slyly explains, Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as... | |
 | John Scanlan - 2005 - 212 pages
...guiding our conduct - as the only means, indeed, of postponing the eventual corrosive decline: •£ 0> Time hath, my Lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devoured As fast as... | |
 | Abraham Rothberg - 2005 - 273 pages
...drawn his last breath, Shakespeare could still speak so directly to him, so powerfully and wisely: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for Oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as... | |
 | Department of English Washington University Robert Milder Professor, St Louis - 2005 - 312 pages
...condition of the modern intellectual. 10 Alms for Oblivion Achilles: What, are my deeds forgot? Ulysses: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes, Those scraps of good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as... | |
 | 650 pages
...complacency of assured fame, consigned to the wastebasket of forgetfulness the patriot's cry for help. " Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as... | |
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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done... 
