 | David Garrick - 1798 - 284 pages
...u debtor, that none dares To stride a limit. Arv. What should we spoke of When we are old as vou ? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December...discourse The freezing hours away ? we have seen nothing. Bel. How you speak ? Did you but know the city's usuries, And felt them knowingly ; the art o' th'... | |
 | Marilyn L. Williamson - Comedy - 1986 - 200 pages
...traveling abed A prison, or a debtor that not dares To stride a limit. Annragus What should we speak of When we are old as you? When we shall hear The rain...prey, Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat; Our valor is to chase what flies. Our cage We make a choir, as doth the prison's bird, And sing our bondage... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1988 - 732 pages
...abed,0 A prison, or a debtor that not dares To stride a limit.0 as Arviragus. What should we speak of When we are old as you? When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how In this our pinching0 cave shall we discourse The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing. 13 place position... | |
 | Pierre Vidal-Naquet - History - 1986 - 398 pages
...and the Origin of the Athenian Ephebia To M . I . FIN LEY We have seen nothing; We are beastly-subtle as the fox for prey. Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat; Our valor is to chase what flies . . . Shakespeare, Cymbeline 3.3.39-42 Before, and even more since, the... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - Drama - 1985 - 216 pages
...Arviragus complains of their state in terms clearly identifying them as ignorant and savage Wild Men: "We have seen nothing: / We are beastly: subtle as...prey, / Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat" (III. ii. 40-4 1). According to Hayden White, "In most accounts of the Wild Man in the Middle Ages,... | |
 | Maurice Hunt - Drama - 1990 - 196 pages
...praise of the secluded life, makes an assumption about the origin of speech: What should we speak of When we are old as you? When we shall hear The rain...pinching cave shall we discourse The freezing hours away? (3.3.35-39) Arviragus assumes that speech is the product of experience. The deeper assumption is that... | |
 | E. M. Knottenbelt - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 432 pages
...collection entitled The Morality of Art which was also dedicated to G. Wilson Knight), he quotes Arviragus: We have seen nothing: We are beastly: subtle as the...warlike as the wolf for what we eat: Our valour is to chase what flies. (HI. iii. 39-42) Hill comments, 'this is not, as it might seem, emblematic fatalism.... | |
 | Peggy Muñoz Simonds - Art and literature - 1992 - 412 pages
...Arviragus complains of their state in terms clearly identifying them as ignorant and savage Wild Men: "We have seen nothing: / We are beastly: subtle as...prey, / Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat" (3.2.39-41). According to Hay den White, "In most accounts of the Wild Man in the Middle Ages, he is... | |
 | Robert Alan Segal - Folklore - 1996 - 350 pages
...the Athenian ephebeia ' Pierre Vidal-Naquct (1968, 1979) To M.1. Finley We have seen nothing; We ore beastly -subtle as the fox for prey. Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat; Oar valour is to chase what flies . . . Shakespeare. Cymbelinc 3.3.39-42 Before, and even more since,... | |
 | Jodi Mikalachki - British in literature - 1998 - 230 pages
...we speak of When we ate old as you? When we shall heat The rain and wind beat datk December.' How ln this our pinching cave shall we discourse The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing: We ate beastly. (3.3.35-40) What the brothers protest is theit exclusion from history. They have seen... | |
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What should we speak of When we are old as you ? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away ? We have seen nothing... 
