 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...roots, And on the ground extends the noble ruin. Ant. [Having thrown himself down.~\ Lie there, the shadow of an emperor; The place thou pressest on thy...narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes; then Octavia, (For Cleopatra will not live to see it,) Octavia then will have thee all her own, And bear thee in... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1852 - 594 pages
...Henry VI. : " And of all my lands Is nothing left me but my body's length." And Dryden's Antony : " The place thou pressest on thy mother Earth Is all thy empire now." Cf. jEsch. S. Theb. 731. Soph. CBd. Col. 789. Shakspeare's Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. s Epota. Herodotus... | |
 | English drama - 1854 - 834 pages
...starved thy wanting age. Vent. [Aside.] How sorrow shakes him ! So now tlie tempest tears him up by th' roots, And on the ground extends the noble ruin. Ant....earth Is all thy empire now: now it contains thee; Rome few days hence, and then 'twill be too large, When thou'rt contracted in thy narrow urn, Shrunk... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1857 - 692 pages
...IAMBICS. [having thrown himself (town]. Lie there, thou shadow of an Emperor ; The place thou prcssest on thy mother earth Is all thy empire now : now it...then 'twill be too large, When thou'rt contracted in the narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes ; then Octavia (For Cleopatra will not live to see it),... | |
 | English drama - 1859 - 824 pages
...tears him up by th' roots, And on the ground extends the noble ruin. Ant. [Having thrown himself down.] Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor ; The place thou...narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes ; then Octavia, (For Cleopatra will not live to see it) Octavia then will have thee all her own, And bear thee in her... | |
 | English drama - 1859 - 838 pages
...tears him up by th' roots, And on the ground extends the noble ruin. Ant. [Hating thrown himself down.] Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor : The place thou...contains thee ; Some few days hence, and then 'twill be loo large, When thou'rt contracted in thy narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes-, then Octavia, (For... | |
 | Benjamin Wrigglesworth Beatson - 1861 - 140 pages
...wanting age. So now the tempest tears him up by th' roots, And on the ground extends the noble ruin. ANT. Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor; The place thou...narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes; then Octavia, (For Cleopatra will not live to see it,) Octavia then will have thee all her own, And bear thee in... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...I fear. W. SHAKESPEARE 899 ANTONY— VENTIDIUS Ant. T IE there, the shadow of an emperor; -I — < the place thou pressest on thy mother earth is all...narrow urn, shrunk to a few cold ashes ; then Octavia, (for Cleopatra will not live to see it) Octavia then will have thee all her own, and bear thee in her... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - American drama - 1865 - 592 pages
...tears him by th' roots, And on the ground extends the noble ruin. Ant. [Having thrown himself down.] Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor ! The place thou...narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes ; then Octavia (For Cleopatra will not live to see it), Octavia then will have thee all her own, And bear thee in... | |
 | Popular readings - English poetry - 1867 - 266 pages
...him up by the roots, And on the ground extends the noble ruin. Ant. [Having thrown himself down.~\ Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor ; The place thou...narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes : then Octavia (For Cleopatra will not live to see it) — Octavia then will have thee all her own, And bear thee... | |
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Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor; The place thou pressest on thy mother earth Is all thy empire now: now it contains thee; Some few days hence, and then 'twill be too large, When thou'rt contracted in thy narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes; then... 
