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... The Plays of William Shakspeare. .... - Page 98by William Shakespeare - 1800Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1817 - 366 pages
...behold'st me ? Eros. Ay, noble lord. Ant. 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 [2] This image our poet seems to have taken from Seneca's ffen-utts, who says, Lichas being launched... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 444 pages
...behold'st me? Eras. Ay, noble lord. Ant. 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 signs ; s Ajax... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...Antony. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonisb, A vapour sometime, like a bear or lion, A towered 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 signs, They are black vesper's pageants. Eros. Ay,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...that's dragon« ish; A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower "d citadel, a pendant rocíe, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air : Thou hast sen these signs ; They are black vesper's pageants. Eros. Ay,... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 434 pages
...Shakspeare had the following passage ir Treatise of Spectres, &c. quarto, 1605, particularly in hi A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't,2 that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: Thou hast seen these signs; They are... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...behold'st me t lSros. Ay, noble lord. Ant. Sometime, we see a clond that's dragonisb ; A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant...promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these sigus ; They are black vesper's pageants. Eros. Ay,... | |
| William Tudor - American essays - 1821 - 178 pages
...In looking at the sky from this earth, Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant...promontory, With trees upon't that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. Yet here they exceeded the wildest delineations of fancy. I observed in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 454 pages
...which our faulty apprehensions forge " The forms of dragons, lions, elephants, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant...forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't 3, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air : Thou hast seen these signs ; They are black... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 448 pages
...forge " The forms of dragons, lions, elephants, " When they hold no proportion." A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant...rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon'ta, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air : Thou hast seen these signs ; They are... | |
| John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...vision melts. WEST INDIES. Again : — Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish ; A vapour sometime, like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant...promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air! SHAKSPEARE. The clouds have a most beautiful appearance at the time of... | |
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