 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - Natural history - 1869 - 842 pages
...disgrace of death ; When spite of cormorant devouring time The endeavor of this present breath may huy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity." Thus the Cormorant Time which has swallowed up so many persons and their works, and his Scythe which... | |
 | Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...tropical mode. Navarre, from his exordium with its (Armadian) martial inflation of the scholars' campaign Therefore, brave conquerors - for so you are, That...affections And the huge army of the world's desires (5. 1. 8-10) and its optimistically vainglorious 'wonder of the world' (12), to his over-dramatization... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 244 pages
...the play,23 is first evoked by Navarre, the three lords being rather prematurely designated by him as brave conquerors - for so you are, That war against...affections And the huge army of the world's desires. (1.1.S-1o) " According to G. Salgado, '"Time's Deformed Hand'", p. 82, more than 700 lines in a play... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...may grace the fashion | Of her disgrace, When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th 'endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall...all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors— for so you1 are, That war against your own affections And the huge army of the world's desires — io Our... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 272 pages
...death: When spite of cormorant devouring time The endeavour of this pre<a>sent breath may buy That Honor which shall bate his Scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity. To think that I have no right to couple myself with you in this speech would be death to me so I have... | |
 | Diana E. Henderson - History - 1995 - 304 pages
...And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th'endeavor of this present breath may buy That honour which shall...affections And the huge army of the world's desires — Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Our court... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th'endeavour of , — so is my name begun, — Philip, good old Sir Robert's — Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Our court... | |
 | Mark Breitenberg - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 240 pages
...expresses this initial renunciation of physical desire in a metaphor drawn from military conquest: Therefore, brave conquerors - for so you are, That...affections And the huge army of the world's desires Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: (Ii8-1 1) In effect, the men are unified around the construction... | |
 | Michael J. Collins - Drama - 1997 - 268 pages
...And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th'endeavor of this present breath may buy That honour which shall...heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors— [1.1.1-8] And at this point an audience could reasonably expect to hear Navarre say, "once more into... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 222 pages
...art (they are seeking fame), and that study, based on reason, is all too vulnerable to 'affections': Therefore, brave conquerors - for so you are, That...affections And the huge army of the world's desires (1.1.8-10) 'Affections' means here both perturbations or diseases (OED, affection sb 1 0) and desires.3*... | |
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The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. 
