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" Achilles' image stood his spear Grip'd in an armed hand; himself behind Was left unseen, save to the eye of mind: A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head, Stood for the whole to be imagined. "
The Prose Works of Charles Lamb - Page 189
by Charles Lamb - 1836
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Shakespeare Studies, Volume 23

J. Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1995 - 304 pages
...the painterly device of overlap intensifies this: That for Achilles' image stood his spear, Grip'd in an armed hand, himself behind Was left unseen, save to the eye of the mind|:] (1424-26) Space, in effect, is being constructed through an acknowledgement of what perception...
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Strands Afar Remote: Israeli Perspectives on Shakespeare

Avraham Oz - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...was there, Conceit deceitful, so compact, so kind, That for Achilles' image stood his spear, Grip'd in an armed hand, himself behind Was left unseen,...a leg, a head Stood for the whole to be imagined. (1.1422-28) The painting reveals its own mediating representational strategies, the tricks and distortions...
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The Narrative Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1999 - 212 pages
...there; 1423 Conceit deceitful, so compact, so kind, That for Achilles' image stood his spear Gripped in an armed hand; himself behind Was left unseen,...a leg, a head, Stood for the whole to be imagined. 1429 And from the walls of strong-besieged Troy, 1430 When their brave hope, bold Hector, marched to...
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Coriolanus

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 320 pages
...was there, Conceit deceitful, so compact, so kind, That for Achilles' image stood his spear, Gripped in an armed hand, himself behind Was left unseen,...a leg, a head Stood for the whole to be imagined. The Rape of Luere ce, 1422-8 As Achilles' spear, so Coriolanus's sword. Lucrece gazes at a tapestry...
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Homenaje a Jack White. Estudios de filologĂ­a inglesa

English philology - 2000 - 284 pages
...was there. Conceit deceitful, so compact, so kind, That for Achilles' image stood his spear, Grip'd in an armed hand, himself behind Was left unseen, save to the eye of the mind: A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head Stood for the whole to be imagined" (1422-28) The painting...
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Henry V

William Shakespeare - Wordsworth classics - 2000 - 684 pages
...in an Armed hand, himfelfe behind 1425 Was left vnfeene, faue to the eye of mind, A hand, a foote, a face, a leg, a head Stood for the whole to be imagined. 205 And from the wals of flrong belieged TROY, When their braue hope, bold HECTOR march 'd to field,...
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On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature: Essays

John Kerrigan - Drama - 2004 - 282 pages
...Grip'd in an anned hand; himself, behind. Was left unteen, save to the eye of mind: A hand, a foor, a face, a leg, a head, Stood for the whole to be imagined. (14ta-8) Reading, Luctece finds a reflex of her grief in Hecuba and Priam, in Troilus and in Hector....
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 31

Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 260 pages
...was there, Conceit deceitful, so compact, so kind, That for Achilles' image stood his spear Gripp'd in an armed hand ; himself behind Was left unseen,...a leg, a head Stood for the whole to be imagined. (11. 1422-8) Even in translation, the parallel strikes me as sufficiently full and detailed to be an...
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The Complete Sonnets and Poems

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 768 pages
...well-known to stand by metonymy for his physical presence. See eg z Henrii Vl 1Contention1 5.1.100. A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head Stood for the whole to be imagined. And from the walls of strong-besieged Troy, When their brave hope, bold Hector, marched to field, 1430...
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Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies

James E. Hirsh - English drama - 2003 - 474 pages
...was there, Conceit deceitful, so compact, so kind, That for Achilles' image stood his spear, Grip'd in an armed hand, himself behind Was left unseen,...a leg, a head Stood for the whole to be imagined. (1422-28) The viewer does not exactly see Achilles even in his mind's eye but imagines on the basis...
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