 Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still ; The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would...  History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun - Page 302by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Bayard Taylor - American literature - 1870 - 376 pages
... BY BAYARD TAYLOR The better angel is a man right fair ; The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. SHAKSPEABE : Sonnets. NEW YORK : G,. P. PUTNAM & SONS, FOURTH AVENUE AND TWENTY-THIRD STREET. LONDON... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...Repulses ? ' He is contented thy poor drudge to be, To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side. ' ' He is no longer young ; she loves another, a handsome,...angel from my side.'* And when she has succeeded in this," he dares not confess it to himself, but suffers all, like Moliere. What wretchedness there is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 588 pages
...Will, If thou turn back, and my loud crying still. CXLIV. Two loves I have of comfort and despair,6 Which like two spirits do suggest* me still ; The...hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side,8 • — their scarlet ornaments, — ] So in " King Edward IH." 1596, — " when she grew pale,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...be kind. So will I pray that thou mayst have thy Will, If thou turn back and my loud crying still. Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like...angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. 5 To win me soon to hell my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would... | |
 | Leslie A. Fiedler - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 524 pages
...the eccentric point of the sequence. A few lines from sonnet 144, however, put that point succinctly: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like...female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side . . . The theory of two loves, one angelic, the other diabolic, is at least a new way of stating the... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...ambiguity is at the heart of Shakespeare's sonnets. Whether the T loves or is loved by a man or a woman: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like...right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill ... (Sonnet 144) Whether, in the 1590s, he considers himself a success or a failure, together with... | |
 | Bi Academic Intervention - Social Science - 1997 - 234 pages
...Shakespeare and Bisexuality Kate Chedgzoy Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two angels do suggest me still. The better angel is a man right fair The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would... | |
 | John McRae - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 172 pages
...serious rhythm and less flippant rhymes in Text: Poems (xix)-(xx). Activity Text: Poems (xix)-(xx) (xix) Two loves I have, of comfort and despair Which like...right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill; 5 To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies. time. 10565 Sonnet 144 8 Wordsworth"' coloured ill. 10566 Venus and Adonis Love is a spirit all compact of fire. Not gross to sink, but light,... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...elsewhere: hence the lady's darkness. Sonnet 144 marks the formal division of the two kinds of love: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair. Which like...angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. But the dramatist in Shakespeare recognizes that human beings are not made of such sharp... | |
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