| Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 280 pages
...is often compared to the opening theme of Shakespeare's own Sonnets: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. (i, v, 225-7) The youth addressed in the Sonnets is reproached in several references to the beauty,... | |
| American essays - 1908 - 940 pages
...Steevens on Twelfth Night. He calls attention to the lines of Viola, — Lady, you are the cruell'at she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy, — and adds, "how much more elegantly is this thought expressed by Shakespeare than by Beaumont and... | |
| Kristin Linklater - Drama - 1992 - 236 pages
...blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy. Olivia rejects the idea that having a baby is the only way to be responsible to future generations,... | |
| William Shakespeare - Brothers and sisters - 1992 - 132 pages
...blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy.43 OLIVIA O sir, I will not be so hard-hearted: I will give out divers schedules of my beauty.... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 220 pages
...blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Lady, you are the cruellest she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. OLIVIA O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted. I will give out divers schedules of my beauty. It shall... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Lady you are the cruellest she alive, 150 If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. OLIVIA O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted. I will give out divers schedules of my beauty. It shall... | |
| R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. (1.5.233-43) In Shakespeare's theater Olivia and "Cesario" would have been boy actors, so that theatrical... | |
| Beatrix Hesse - 1998 - 214 pages
...zu verstehen, und wiederum im wortwörtlichen Sinn antwortet. VIOLA Lady, you are the cruellest she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. OLIVIA O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted I will give out divers schedules of my beauty. It shall... | |
| Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - Drama - 1998 - 370 pages
...blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy. OLIVIA: O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall... | |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley - Fiction - 1998 - 356 pages
...Wildwood Gate. No matter the cost. TWELVE THE GRAVE BEYOND THE DOOR Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TRUTH JOURDEMAYNE TRUDGED UP THE HILL, CAREfully following the trail — or... | |
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