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" 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 98
by William Shakespeare - 1800
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Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities

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...
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Troubled Pleasures: Writings on Politics, Gender and Hedonism

Kate Soper - Literary Criticism - 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...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. Shakespeare,...
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Aesthetic Illusion: Theoretical and Historical Approaches

Frederick Burwick, Walter Pape, University of California (System). Humanities Research Institute - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 494 pages
...climatological aspects involved in Cymbeline as a whole, see Zacharasiewicz: Klimatheorie, pp. 209 ff. A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain,...promontory With trees upon't that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. (IV.xiv.2— 6) Antony's dying words have a counterpart in those of Cleopatra...
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The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance

Eva T. H. Brann - Philosophy - 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...promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. [Anthony and Cleopatra IV 14] Moreover, when such resemblances do occur,...
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Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays ...

Janet Adelman - Drama - 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 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,...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...(IV, ix) 9 Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometimes like a bear or lion, A towered S upon 't that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs; They are black...
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Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion

Stewart Elliott Guthrie - Religion - 1995 - 335 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 upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air ... Major poets since Shakespeare also are rich and varied sources. Donne,...
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Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time

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 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,...
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Antony and Cleopatra

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 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,...
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Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - Drama - 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 upon't, that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs; They are black Vesper's pageants." 7 EROS Ay,...
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