 To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...  The Port Folio - Page 2381809Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...prophesy (Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lip» To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue), ould pray to move, prayers would move me : But I am...constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fixed Then- infants quartered with the hands of war; All pity choaked with custom of fell deeds : And Caesar's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...— Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue ! A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic...And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall hut smile, when they behold Their infants quarter'd by the hands of war : All pity chok'd with custom... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Drama - 2004 - 264 pages
...the Italian civil wars. Certainly the grim, hyperbolic vision of impietas that Antony articulates - "mothers shall but smile when they behold / Their infants quartered with the hands of war" — sets forth an essentially Vergilian view of war, that destructive madness which cuts down so many... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Assassination - 1998 - 276 pages
...prophesy Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips 260 To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue A curse shall light upon the limbs of men. Domestic...behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war, 253.1 all but] t lManet) 254 ANTONY] not in F 257 tide of times course, stream of history ded in civil... | |
 | James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...of pity in a "flaming wrath" and to find solace in cruelty. But Antony's prophecy is more universal: A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic...infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds. (3.1.263-70) It stems from a long tradition of curse and threat of... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...— Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue — A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war — All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds; And Caesar's spirit,... | |
 | Timothy Hampton - History - 1990 - 332 pages
...and word is continued in Antony's prophecy of a war in which the body of Italy is ripped to pieces ("Domestic fury and fierce civil strife / Shall cumber all the parts of Italy" [3.1.263—64]) and babes are torn apart ("mothers shall but smile when they behold / Their infants... | |
 | Stanley J. Scott - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 334 pages
...Shakespeare sees this civil conflict not as an ordinary war but as the total unleashing of the mob: Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber...infants quartered with the hands of war; All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds; And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge; With Ate by his side, come... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - Communities in literature - 1995 - 279 pages
...its people and its ceremonies, will be spilled all over Rome. Antony's curse "upon the limbs of men," Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful...infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds (III.i.265-9) sounds remarkably like Bolingbroke's threat to "lay... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - Communities in literature - 1995 - 279 pages
..."upon the limbs of men," Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful objects so famijiar That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their...infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds .... (III.i.265-9) sounds remarkably like Bolingbroke's threat to... | |
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