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" The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. "
Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream - Page 5
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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The Shakespeare Enigma

Peter Dawkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 159 pages
...Live register'd upon our brazen tombs, And then grace us in the disgrace of death; Th'endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall...affections And the huge army of the world's desires — Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Our court...
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Shakespeare's Webs: Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama

Arthur F. Kinney - Drama - 2004 - 198 pages
...And then grace us in the disgrace of death When, spite of cormorant devouring time, Th' endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall...affections And the huge army of the world's desires — Our late edict shall strongly stand in force. Navarre shall be the wonder of the world. Our court...
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La prohibición del amor: sujeto, cultura y forma artística en Thomas Mann

Fernando Bayón - Love in literature - 2004 - 424 pages
...palabras del Mephisto manniano aquellas otras con que el rey Fernando se dirigiera a los tres camaradas?: «Therefore, brave conquerors — for so you are,...against your own affections / And the huge army of the world-s desires...» («Por consiguiente, bravos conquistadores; pues eso es lo que sois, / que guerreáis...
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Love's Labor's Lost

William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Drama - 2011 - 353 pages
...speech that he and his lords struggle against a powerful, cunning enemy — themselves. They are to be "brave conquerors, for so you are / That war against...affections / And the huge army of the world's desires" (1.1.8-10). The specific objects of their affections, however, will be the ladies from France, and...
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Why Shakespeare: An Introduction to the Playwright's Art

G. M. Pinciss - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 214 pages
...study: When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th'endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity. (Li) Ferdinand argues that only fame can give one lasting recognition. To use his rather elaborate...
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Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama

Arthur F. Kinney - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 186 pages
...death; When spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity (1.1.3-7). Margaret Spufford has suggested a key motive in making wills was "to provide for children...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

Penny Gay - Literary Criticism - 2008
...And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th'endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall...affections And the huge army of the world's desires Our late edict shall strongly stand in force. Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Our court shall...
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