 Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...  The Hunting Grounds of the Old World - Page 219by Henry Astbury Leveson - 1865 - 660 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Yi-fu Tuan - Social Science - 2002 - 246 pages
...did he find nature flattering. In fact, it was precisely nature's straight dealing that he admired: Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The season's difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 1955 - 196 pages
...brings into sharp focus that first act which has just culminated in the usurper's murderous malice. "Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court?" Though the contrast is traditional, it comes upon us here, like so many things in Shakespeare, with... | |
 | Richard Hayman - History - 2003 - 300 pages
...precisely those terms, recalling the male camaraderie of the hunt: Now my co-mates, and brothers in exile Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than...woods More free from peril than the envious Court? Even the adverse conditions of winter can be borne as the wind and the cold feelingly persuade me what... | |
 | Robert Ornstein - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 318 pages
...pastoral. fends country living and attacks the court, with its artificiality, danger, and competitiveness: "Hath not old custom made this life more sweet / Than...woods / More free from peril than the envious court?" (2.1.2-4; emphasis mine). Any fear that his forest society might merely reproduce structures of authority,... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature - 2004 - 196 pages
...in order to vary and embellish a veritable anthology of pastoral topoi. Thus an initial proposition ("Hath not old custom made this life more sweet / Than that of painted pomp?) is first rephrased and then amplified by another ("Here feel we not the penalty of Adam"), which is... | |
 | Elaine Goodale Eastman - History - 2004 - 212 pages
...children never questioned the somewhat wistful motto which hung in the entry opposite our front door: "Hath Not Old Custom Made This Life More Sweet Than That of Painted Pomp." Still, even in the days when with a child's uncritical enthusiasm I held my home to be uniquely desirable,... | |
 | George Dekker - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 342 pages
...satisfaction with this mode of living is suggested by Radcliffe's chapter epigraph from As You Like It. Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we not the penalty of Adam, The season's difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 340 pages
...modifies the music which plays for us in the old Duke's mind. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than...woods More free from peril than the envious court? . . . Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious... | |
 | Kathy Elgin - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 36 pages
...penalties for all kinds of criminals, including this beggar, who is being whipped through the streets. Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than...woods More free from peril than the envious court? As You LIKE IT, ACT 2, SCENE 1 old custom: a long time painted pomp: artificial splendor envious: where... | |
 | Kathy Elgin - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 36 pages
...penalties for all kinds of criminals, including this beggar, who is being whipped through the streets. Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than...woods More free from peril than the envious court? As You LIKE IT, ACT 2, SCENE 1 old custom: a long time painted pomp: artificial splendor envious: where... | |
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