 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...one, take me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier, take a king. King Henry — Henry V V.ii What power is it which mounts my love so high, That...brings To join like likes and kiss like native things. Helena— All's Well Li My friends were poor but honest, so's my love. Helena— All's Well I.iii This... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 236 pages
...often cuts across the verse structure, resisting its rhythm as much as it does that of the blank verse. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. (1, ¡,212-15) It does incline more towards balanced antithesis, What power is it which mounts my love... | |
 | James E. Hirsh - 2003 - 474 pages
...memorably declared her specific intention not to depend on lucky accidents and to take action herself: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. (1.1.216-19) This speech invites playgoers to anticipate that Helena will take some action to advance... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 288 pages
...remember thy friends. Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee. So, farewell. [Exit] 12 Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe...high, That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye? All's Well that ends Well 15 Par. Little Hellen farewell, if I can remember thee, I will thinke of... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - 2005 - 208 pages
...If she can but reach the court and cure the King's disease, it may prove the way to Bertram's love: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. (Ii202) This is Helena's theme, that the heavens may help those who help themselves, and will hinder... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 340 pages
...1.1.90-92] Withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. [Helen— 1.1.109-10] Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. [Helen— 1.1.222-25] ... he must needs go that the devil drives. [Fool— 1.3.30-31] If ever we are... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 1962 - 240 pages
...perhaps the clearest statement of man's freedom, and hence of his responsibility, in any of the plays: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. (1.1.231-4) We are prone to that enervating dullness. It is a legacy to us of the offending Adam. But... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - 2006 - 385 pages
..."dull." That is perhaps what Shakespeare's Helena means in All's Well That Ends Well when she exclaims: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, / Which we...pull / Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull." The lingo of astrologers came in for some mocking, of course. In John Marston's The Malcontent, a whore... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pages
...great clarity. Helena in All's Well, a player in this spirit war, is notably clear, or seems to be. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. (1.1) This passage became my touchstone for "Pelagian" Shakespeare, who doesn't believe there's a crack... | |
 | Penny Gay - 2008
...wisdom to the audience, and at the same time indicates that this woman intends to pursue her desires: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. . . . Impossible be strange attempts to those That weigh their pains in sense, and do suppose What... | |
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. 
