 Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood, If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.  The Living Age - Page 2051897Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 294 pages
...Butler emends (?) this into " feign." The occasion of this sonnet is unknown. 166. (Q. 146). 1. C/.The strong base and building of my love • Is as the...very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it. Troilus and Cressida, IV. iv. 109-11. 2. Hopelessly corrupt in the Q., which reads — My sinful earth... | |
 | William Josephus Robinson - Medicine - 1909 - 524 pages
...devolve upon us to accept as an inspired pre-Newtonian pronouncement the words of Cressida : "* * * the strong base and building of my love is as the...very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it." Dante, it will be remembered, uses the same purely poetic figure. Merely imaginative conceptions, these,... | |
 | 1909 - 472 pages
...devolve upon us to accept as an inspired pre-NewIonian pronouncement the words of Cressida: "* * * the strong base and building of my love is as the...very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it." Dante, it will be remembered, uses the same purely poetic figure. Merely imaginative conceptions, these,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1911 - 444 pages
...falsehood If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; 105 But the strong base and building of my love Is as...very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it. I'll go in and weep,— 108 PANDARUS. Do, do. CRESSIDA. Tear my bright hair, and scratch my praised... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1912 - 404 pages
...crown of falsehood, If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can, But the strong base and building of my love...very centre of the Earth, Drawing all things to it. — I '11 go in and weep, — Pan. Do, do. Cres. — Tear my bright hair, and scratch my praised cheeks... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Edward Dowden - 1912 - 1474 pages
...falsehood If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; 105 But the strong base and building of my love Is as...very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it. I'll go in and weep, — 108 PANDARUS. Do, do. CRESSIDA. Tear my bright hair, and scratch my praised... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - American literature - 1912 - 404 pages
...1685 das Gravitationsgesetz, und shakespeare schrieb 1609: „Vut the strong base and building of mv, love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it." Die größten Gffenbarungen der Dichter liegen aber nicht in der sphäre der wissenschaft, sondern... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - Literature - 1913 - 248 pages
...Newton astonished the world with the law of gravitation, Shakespeare in his Troilus and Cressida wrote: But the strong base and building of my love Is as...very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it. In 1859 Darwin published his epoch-making work, The Origin of Species. This was the first time that... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosities and wonders - 1913 - 990 pages
...and Cressida," he put these lines into the mouth of Cressida: But the strong base and building of ray love Is as the very centre of the earth Drawing all things to it. Act iv, Sc. 2. Twelve years earlier be had made Ttomeo say: Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre... | |
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