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" That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. "
The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. Whittingham's ed - Page 51
by William Shakespeare - 1814
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Romantic Critical Essays

David Bromwich - 1987 - 320 pages
...picture of his mind, unearthly, unsubstantial, with gorgeous tints and ever-varying forms That which was now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water."' Our author's mind is (as he himself might express it) tangential. There is no subject on which he has...
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Essays on Dramatic Traditions: Challenges and Transmissions

Mary Beth Rose - 1989 - 256 pages
...dissolution of personality: Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish: A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water. . . . My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body. Here I am Antony, Yet cannot hold this...
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Themes in Drama: Volume 12, Drama and Philosophy

James Redmond - 1990 - 250 pages
...describing the shifting movement of the evening clouds, black vesper's pageants. The passage concludes: That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water. (1v, xiv, 9-11) Milan Kundera has appositely remarked of the drowned Ophelia that 'Water is the element...
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Creative Understanding

Roberto Torretti - 1990 - 386 pages
...conclude that, when Twin Shakespeare made Twin Antony say, pointing at the swiftly changing clouds, That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water, he could not refer to the same fluid as our Bard in the familiar homophonic lines; although both poets...
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Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays ...

Janet Adelman - 1992 - 396 pages
...upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs, They are black vesper's pageants. Eros Ay, my lord. Ant. That which...My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body: here I am Antony, Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave. (4.14.1-14] No longer Herculean...
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Antony and Cleopatra

Harley Granville-Barker - 1993 - 164 pages
...upon't, that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants. EROS. Ay, my lord. ANT. That which...My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body. . . . We should feel with Antony the relief this strange sense of dissolution brings from the...
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Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 pages
...with air. Thou hast seen these signs; They are black Vesper's pageants." 7 EROS Ay, my lord. ANTONY That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...indistinct As water is in water. EROS It does, my lord. ANTONY My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body: here I am Antony, Yet cannot hold this...
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Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind

Ellen Spolsky - 1993 - 262 pages
...from failure and the new possibilities that arise from gaps in the system. Minds, Modules, and Models That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.... Here I am Antony, Yet cannot hold this visible shape. — Antony, in Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra's...
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Men in Women's Clothing: Anti-theatricality and Effeminization, 1579-1642

Laura Levine - 1994 - 200 pages
...with air. Thou hast seen these signs, They are black vesper's pageants. EROS: Ay, my lord. ANTONY: That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...indistinct As water is in water. EROS: It does, my lord. ANTONY: My good knave, Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body. Here I am Antony, Yet cannot hold...
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Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613

Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 294 pages
...with air. For a moment the clouds resemble a horse, but in an instant more they lose all definition, That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water. (4.14.2) Shakespeare worked for his royal master not just a piece of propaganda but a remarkable transformation,...
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