 | Samuel Schoenbaum - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 420 pages
...take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. Viola. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself,... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - Education - 1990 - 436 pages
...take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. — The Duke, in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Let there be no great disproportion in age. They that... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 288 pages
...Benwick inconstant. Her 'authority' could be the Duke in Twelfth Night admitting to Viola,17 For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. |n. iv. 31-4) An even more likely source is the song in Much Ado about men being... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - History - 1991 - 402 pages
...men's inconstancy which in turn becomes the means of an ironically revealed displacement: DUKE. . . . however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn Than women's are. . . . Then let thy love he younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the hent: For women are... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...An elder than herself; so wears she to him; 50 So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. VIOLA I think it well, my lord. ORSINO Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection... | |
 | Mario DiGangi - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 236 pages
...have lost their virginity, as he informs Cesario: So sways she level in her husband's heart: For boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won Than women's are. v1o. I think it well my lord. ORS . Then let thy love be younger than thyself,... | |
 | Beatrix Hesse - 1998 - 214 pages
...hat, und vor dem Hintergrund von Orsinos emotionaler Unstetigkeit. So sagt Orsino über sich selbst: "Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,/ More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,/ Than women's are."(II.iv.33ff) Und Feste charakterisiert ihn in der selben Szene mit den Worten "thy mind is a very... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - Comedy - 1998 - 520 pages
...before finally settling down to a constant attachment such as the heroines exhibit from the start. Men's "fancies are more giddy and unfirm, / More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, / Than women's are."2 In the case of true love, once stabilized — even as in the case of mere... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Brothers and sisters - 2014 - 260 pages
...than herself, so that she adjusts to suit him, So sways she level in her husband's heart; For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 35 More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. Viola I think it well, my lord.... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 36 pages
...take An elder than herself, so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. Act ii Sciv Viola tells him of a woman's constancy in love; she is, of course, expressing her own feelings... | |
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What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are... 
