 O'er-run and trampled on : then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours; For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps...  The Globe - Page 42by William Henry Thorne - 1902Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 228 pages
...and trampled on. Then what they do in present. Though less than yours in past. must o'ertop yours; For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th'hand And. with his arms outstretched as he would fly. Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles.... | |
 | Helen Bevington - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 232 pages
...voices. Though far from ordinary people even then, they lived and breathed. Yet this is how it goes. For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly...shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. — Troilus and Cressida November Subject: birds... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1987 - 260 pages
...parting guest by th'hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: the welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not virtue seek 170 Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,... | |
 | Eric Gerald Stanley, T. F. Hoad - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1988 - 224 pages
...provides Ulysses with an even more chilling domestic image to describe the fate of his vocabulary: Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. The welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.... | |
 | George T. Wright - Poetry - 1988 - 366 pages
...and then to complete the period in a line of only four to seven syllables often has a strong impact: For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, Shakespeare's Metrical Art And with his arms outstretch 'd as he would fly, Grasps in the... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...possibility that time may bring change and yet also a violent fear that it might' (Erikson 1959, 126). 'For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, And with his arms outstretch 'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...and trampled on. Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours; For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. The welcome ever smiles,... | |
 | Noel Annan - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 300 pages
...Ajax is now being hailed as the hero of the Greeks. Then he tries reason: fame is destroyed by time, 'For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly...shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.' But Achilles is not to be moved. He has private... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...has been forgotten, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion": For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. The welcome ever smiles,... | |
 | Philip Gaskell - Canon (Literature) - 1999 - 188 pages
...o'ertop yours. For Time is like a fashionable host. That slightlv shakes his parting guest by th'hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly. Grasps...virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beaut), wit. High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charm, are subjects all... | |
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