NAY, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure : those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front... The Plays of William Shakspeare. .... - Page 1by William Shakespeare - 1800Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1866 - 788 pages
...his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars', now hend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon...a tawny front : his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges^1* all temper, And is become... | |
| Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pages
...Mars from the start. In Philo's description Antony's "goodly eyes," That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend,...Upon a tawny front; his captain's heart Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, And is become the... | |
| Joseph Frank - 1991 - 220 pages
...dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend,...Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, And is become the... | |
| Harley Granville-Barker - 1993 - 164 pages
...dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure; those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend,...Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, And is become the... | |
| Carol Thomas Neely - 1985 - 300 pages
...Cleopatra by introducing the terms of the conventional dichotomy: Antony's eyes, which once "glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn / The office...a tawny front. His captain's heart, / Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst / The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper / And is become... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 pages
...O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glowed like plated Mars — now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front: 1 his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast,... | |
| Laura Levine - 1994 - 200 pages
...and turning instead to the behavior of love: Those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like Plated Mars, now bend,...office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front. (Ii2-6)2 Literally the description is one of behavior, of a gaze changing, of eyes changing from one... | |
| Maynard Mack - 1993 - 300 pages
...to attract a soldier: those his goodly eyes That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front; (1.1.2) and there is more than one kind of attitude that may be taken toward the imperium of Rome:... | |
| Kim F. Hall - 1995 - 340 pages
...opening scene, Philo comments on both Cleopatra's sexuality and her darkness, claiming that Antony's eyes "now bend, now turn / The office and devotion of their view / Upon a tawny front" (1.1.4-6) and calling him "the fan / To cool a gipsy's lust" (iig-io).27 His language, typical of orientalist... | |
| Michael Morrison - 2013 - 120 pages
...from his career and is now focused on Cleopatra: ...those goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend,...and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front.... (I, i, 11. 2-6) Whereas Shakespeare sometimes heaps detail upon detail, his sentences are often elliptical,... | |
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