 | Richard P. Blackmur - Literary Collections - 1989 - 312 pages
...youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both;" and continues in the play thus: "for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms of palsied eld." This contrasted theme is given in the lines: "In the juvescence of the year Came Christ the tiger In... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...gout and rheum are given as characteristic diseases of old age 32-8 Thou hast ... pleasant The general But as it were an after-dinner's sleep Dreaming on...limb, nor beauty To make thy riches pleasant. What's in this That bears the name of life ? Yet in this life Lie hid mo thousand deaths ; yet death we fear,... | |
 | Julian Markels - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
..."Be absolute for death" (IILi.5— 41). He side-lined a passage that includes the lines, "Thou has nor youth nor age, / But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, / Dreaming on both" (11. 32-34), and he double side-lined the following: "Thy best of rest is sleep, / And that thou oft... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...in the reasoner is foolish, and in the poet trite and vulgar. (I, 314) [14] [Ibid., 3.1.32ff: Duke. Thou hast nor youth, nor age; But as it were an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both;] This is exquisitely imagined. When we are young we busy ourselves in forming schemes for succeeding... | |
 | Lawrence J. Ross - Drama - 1997 - 194 pages
...effusion of thy proper loins, Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth, nor age, But as it were an after-dinner's...doth beg the alms Of palsied eld: and when thou art o'd and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty To make thy riches pleasant. What's... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...other medicine But only hope: I have hope to live and am prepared to die. 10380 Measure for Measure Thou hast nor youth nor age: But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both. 10381 Measure for Measure Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. 3798 Measure for Measure Thou hast nor youth nor age; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both. 3799 The Merchant of Venice God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. 3800 The Merchant of... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...gout, serpigo, and the rheum / For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth, nor age, / But as in were an after-dinner's sleep / Dreaming on both; for...thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this /That bears name of life? Yet in this life / Lie hid moe thousand deaths; yet death we fear /That makes these odds... | |
 | 顏元叔 - Comedy - 2001 - 838 pages
...thou'rt poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, Thou hast nor youth, nor age, But as it were an after-dinner's...Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth Becomes as age, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld: and when thou art old and rich, Thou hast neither heat,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Wordsworth classics - 2000 - 684 pages
...or store in a barn; garner. 862, 863.] MALONE (ed. 1780) compares Measure for Measure, 111.1.36-38, "when thou art old and rich, Thou hast neither heat,...affection, limb, nor beauty To make thy riches pleasant." 867, 868.] VERITY (ed. 1890): [This thought] is developed at length in that greatest of Sonnets [129].... | |
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Thou hast nor youth, nor age ; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both: for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld... 
