 A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants. EROS. Ay, my lord. ANTONY. That which is now...  Characters of Shakespeare's Plays - Page 68by William Hazlitt - 1845 - 229 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Redmond - Drama - 1990 - 250 pages
...describing the shifting movement of the evening clouds, black vesper's pageants. The passage concludes: That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water. (1v, xiv, 9-11) Milan Kundera has appositely remarked of the drowned Ophelia that 'Water is the element... | |
 | Roberto Torretti - Science - 1990 - 386 pages
...conclude that, when Twin Shakespeare made Twin Antony say, pointing at the swiftly changing clouds, That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water, he could not refer to the same fluid as our Bard in the familiar homophonic lines; although both poets... | |
 | Robert Pack, Jay Parini - Authors - 1991 - 316 pages
...citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs;...thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct EROS: It does, my lord. ANTONY: My good knave, Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body: here I am... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs,...They are black vesper's pageants. Eros Ay, my lord. Ant. That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs; They are black Vesper's pageants." 7 EROS Ay, my lord. ANTONY That which is now a horse,...good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body: here I am Antony, Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave. I made these wars for Egypt, and the... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world. And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs,...Antony: That which is now a horse, even with a thought I he rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water. Eros: It does, my lord. Antony: My... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 262 pages
...from failure and the new possibilities that arise from gaps in the system. Minds, Modules, and Models That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.... Here I am Antony, Yet cannot hold this visible shape. — Antony, in Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra's... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - Shakespeare, William - 1993 - 164 pages
...citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs;...They are black vesper's pageants. EROS. Ay, my lord. ANT. That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns and makes it indistinct, As water... | |
 | Laura Levine - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 200 pages
...citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs,...knave, Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body. Here I am Antony, Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave. (IV.xiv.2-14) The degeneration of images... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Drama - 1997 - 294 pages
...with air. For a moment the clouds resemble a horse, but in an instant more they lose all definition, That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water. (4.14.2) Shakespeare worked for his royal master not just a piece of propaganda but a remarkable transformation,... | |
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