 | John Wiltshire - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 194 pages
...Carries no favour in't but Bertram's. I am undone. There's no living, none, If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one That I should love a bright particular star...and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. (I, i, 78-88) The reader or audience cannot know at first of whom she is speaking when Helena... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 322 pages
...regarded as the Christian heaven or firmament. Hence Helena's plaintive lament in All's Well 'Twerc all one That I should love a bright particular star...and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.2 With all this, the sun yet retained a special place, as giver of light and heat. The spheres... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...service and adoration, reminiscent of the Sonnets. Her father is forgotten : If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one That I should love a bright particular star...and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. The ambition in my love thus plagues itself: The hind that would be mated with the lion Must... | |
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It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me : In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. 
