 Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these...  Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes - Page 790by William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1790Full view - About this book
 | Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 400 pages
...theme in Shakespeare's plays. Antony says, Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant...rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't. . . (Antony and Cleopatra (IV. 14.) And Hamlet teases Polonius: Ham. Do you see yonder cloud... | |
 | Kate Soper - Social Science - 1990 - 310 pages
...undermining our powers of disbelief, 'Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant...nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra ought to... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - Reference - 1991 - 828 pages
...profusion: Sonic-time we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue...that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. [Anthony and Cleopatra IV 14] Moreover, when such resemblances do occur, when the profile of a mountain... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Body, Human, in literature - 1992 - 396 pages
...see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees...nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs, They are black vesper's pageants. Eros Ay, my lord. Ant. That which is now a... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime, like a bear, or lion, A towcr'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees...nod unto the world. And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs, They are black vesper's pageants. Eros: Ay, my lord. Antony: That which is now... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - Shakespeare, William - 1993 - 164 pages
...we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees...nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants. EROS. Ay, my lord. ANT. That which is now... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Egypt - 1993 - 166 pages
...we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees...nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs; They are black Vesper's pageants." 7 EROS Ay, my lord. ANTONY That which is... | |
 | Stewart Elliott Guthrie - Religion - 1995 - 670 pages
...we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees...that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air ... Major poets since Shakespeare also are rich and varied sources. Donne, for example, begins "The... | |
 | Laura Levine - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 200 pages
...body cannot hold its visible shape: ANTONY: Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant...nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs, They are black vesper's pageants. EROS: Ay, my lord. ANTONY: That which is now... | |
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