 | J. Douglas Kneale - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 250 pages
...Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: the boy has "a huge wallet o'er [his] shoulders slung"; Ulysses says," lime hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion" (3.3.145). Lister further observes that these occurrences of the word "wallet" are the only ones in... | |
 | Angela Goddard, Lindsey Meân Patterson - Education - 2000 - 132 pages
...traditionally associated with 'Father Time', who is often pictured as stern, authoritarian and inhumane: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devoured As fast as... | |
 | Allan Bloom - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 172 pages
...speaks the best poetry in the play in the service of persuading Achilles of this terrible conclusion: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, g8 Troilus and Cressida A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which... | |
 | Willa Cather - Fiction - 2000 - 212 pages
...back/ This is an altered version of Ulysses' speech in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida 3.3.145-46: "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion." 17.8 Rolla/ The title character of a poem by Alfred de Musset (1810-57). Rolla lives a life of debauchery,... | |
 | Alison E. Denham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 392 pages
...reconstructing it in simile form. Consider the transformation effected in these lines from Troihis and Cressida: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. When they are rewritten as, Time is, my lord, like someone with a wallet at his back Wherein he puts... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...one's relatives, blameless actions: that is a supreme blessing. Sutta Nipata, II, 4 (3rd century neE) 7 Time hath, my Lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, III, iii, 145-6 (? 1602) 8 1 give no alms. For that I am... | |
 | Tony Vaux, Anthony Vaux - Business & Economics - 2013 - 252 pages
...to get out of his tent and take action, Ulysses used the argument that the past is soon forgotten: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. These scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...Reyes), tal vez la advertencia de Ulises es otra descortés bofetada a Jonson, cuyo deseo de emin. Uliss. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, / A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. /Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd / As fast... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...Sh.) says: 'A variation of the fable is found in Tro. &• Cress., IlI, iii, 145, where Ulysses says, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion."' But this is again a note on Johnson and not on this passage in Coriolanus. — ED.] one that loues... | |
 | Nicholas Delbanco - Fiction - 2000 - 242 pages
...no doubt in part—because their teeth were bad. As a character in Troilus and Cressida reminds us, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion." Smile. Recently two of my "masters" have died. I use the word with some particularity; they were my... | |
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Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. 
