 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 588 pages
...me, that I should not Be noble to myself: but hark thee, Charmian. [Whispers CHARMIAX. IRAS. Finish, good lady ; 'the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. CLEO. Hie thee again : I have spoke already, and it is provided ; Go, put it to the haste. CHAR. ,... | |
 | William Troy - Literary Collections - 1967 - 324 pages
...in the text—superb instances of contextual poetry, as in Iras's classic requiem at the end: Finish good lady, the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. When Antony returns unexpectedly from the battlefield (Act IV, Scene 8), Cleopatra overwhelms us with... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...always complex and packed; he achieves some of his greatest effect by a magical simplicity: Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. We must not forget that Shakespeare was more than a brilliant dramatist and man of the theater: he... | |
 | Helen Bevington - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 234 pages
...don't mind. It offers, he said, "an inviolable sanctuary." From people and circumstances. "Finish, good lady, the bright day is done; and we are for the dark." The sun has set over the North Pole, the night has come on. But I'm not superstitious about it. There... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...words me, that I should not 190 Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian. [whispers IRAS Finish, good lady. The bright day is done, And we are for the dark. CLEOPATRA Hie thee again, I have spoke already, and it is provided. Go put it to the haste. CHARMIAN... | |
 | William J. Leonard - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 388 pages
...Manresa in the sky." In the play, her lady-in-waiting says to Cleopatra, who is planning suicide, Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. Against that despairing counsel St. Paul writes to his converts in Thessalonica: "It is not as if you... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - Shakespeare, William - 1993 - 164 pages
...what lies behind Caesar's courtesy; and the timid, silent Iras suddenly breaks silence with Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. — revealing herself in a dignity of spirit of her own. Another moment and she is trembling again;... | |
 | Derek Ager, Derek Victor Ager - Science - 1995 - 256 pages
...quotation from the great bard, when Iras says to Cleopatra, with a hint of catastrophism: 'Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark'. I do not believe in CP Snow's 'Two Cultures', so I hope the duller and more conventional scientists... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Generals - 2000 - 404 pages
...should not Be noble to my self. But hark thee, Charmian. Cleopatra whispers to Charmian IRAS Finish, good lady, the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. CLEOPATRA (to Charmian) Hie thee again. I have spoke already, and it is provided — 195 Go put it... | |
 | Leon Garfield - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 328 pages
...Cleopatra contemptuously, when Caesar and his iron tribe had gone. "But hark thee, Charmian — " "Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, and we are for the dark," said Iras sadly, as her mistress whispered in Charmian's ear. "It is provided. Go put it to the haste,"... | |
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He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not Be noble to myself; but hark thee, Charmian. [Whispers CHARMIAN. Iras. Finish, good lady ; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. 
