 His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested the world : his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.  Elegant extracts in poetry - Page 631by Elegant extracts - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...kept their course and lighted The little O, the earth ... His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all...dolphin-like; they show'd his back above The element they lived in: in his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets: realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from... | |
 | Frederick William Sternfeld - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 392 pages
...most glorious music is the music of Shakespeare's verse : His legs bestrid the ocean, his rear'd arm Crested the world ; his voice was propertied As all...quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. Antony, the king, and Cleopatra, the queen, redeemed through death, regain their regal stature. Their... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 472 pages
...shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in 't; an autumn 'twas1, That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphinlike;...his livery* Walk'd crowns and crownets: realms and islands were As plates dropt from his pocket.* DOLABELLA. Cleopatra!— CLEOPATRA. Think you, there... | |
 | Martin Lings - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 228 pages
...their course, and lighted The little O, the earth . . . His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all...in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping . . . Think you there was, or might be, such a man As this I dreamt of? DOLABELLA. Gentle madam, no.... | |
 | Jill Line - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 196 pages
...their course, and lighted The little O, the earth. . . . His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all...thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an Antony it was That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like; they showed his back above... | |
 | Tzachi Zamir - Philosophy - 2011 - 251 pages
...the visiting moon. (IV.xv.64-68) And later she says this: His legs bestride the ocean, his rear'd arm Crested the world; his voice was propertied As all...dolphin-like, they show'd his back above The element they lived in: in his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets: realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from... | |
 | Anthony David Nuttall - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 196 pages
...the earth. DOLABELLA. Most sovereign creature,CLEOPATRA. His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm Crested the world; his voice was propertied As all...rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in 't, an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping; his delights Were dolphin-like, they show'd his... | |
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