 You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd : be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The...  Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical ... - Page 501826Full view - About this book
 | Rolf Soellner - Drama - 1972 - 488 pages
...in fear, turns to the astonished Ferdinand and begins to speak haltingly: "You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, /As if you were dismay'd; be cheerful, sir, / Our revels now are ended" (IV.i.i4648). If this assurance is not apt to console Ferdinand, neither is the panoramic prediction... | |
 | Harry Raphael Garvin, Michael Payne - English literature - 1980 - 210 pages
...revenge on Alonso and Antonio, Prospero is overwhelmed by a sense of failure: You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful,...now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,... | |
 | Robert W. Uphaus - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 172 pages
...and he then speaks his famous elegiac speech to the concerned Ferdinand: You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd; be cheerful,...now are ended. These our actors, (As I foretold you) were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And like the baseless fabric of this vision,... | |
 | Barbara L. Estrin - Abandoned children in literature - 1985 - 244 pages
...and the consequent danger of his art: You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay 'd: be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...Never till this day Saw I him touch'd with anger, so distemper'd. PROSPERO: You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful,...now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And. like the baseless fabric of this vision,... | |
 | Alice O. Howell - Psychology - 1993 - 302 pages
...I could not help reciting Shakespeare to you. He said it best in the famous lines from The Tempest: Be cheerful, sir: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,... | |
 | Stephen Mitchell - Religion - 1993 - 196 pages
...single Lotus will swallow you whole. Translated by Jane Hirshfield WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) "Be cheerful, sir: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...frightened, and immediately becomes genial. You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismayed. Be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,... | |
 | M. Victoria Guerin - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 358 pages
...all, to bring delight in the hearing, as if the author said to each member of the assembled court: be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,... | |
 | Robert S. Ellwood - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 182 pages
...composure the dissolution of one temporality, affirming with Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest: ... Be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,... | |
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