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The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works ... - Page 23
by William Shakespeare - 1853
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Fairy Tales, legends and romances illustrating Shakespeare and other early ...

442 pages
...sung." Their employment is thus charmingly represented by Shakespeare, in the address of Prospero — " Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves,...demy-puppets, that By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make,1 'Whereof the ewe not bites : and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms ; that rejoice...
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A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the ...

Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...better wisdoms, which have freely gone With this affair along: for all, our thanks. (Hamlet I, 2, 1 ff.) Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves;...ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose...
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Shakespeare, Contemporary Critical Approaches

Harry Raphael Garvin, Michael Payne - 1980 - 210 pages
...accepts the possibility of the fall he was so anxious, in that earlier scene at the zenith, to avoid: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves;...ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you...
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Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare

Linda Bamber - 1982 - 223 pages
...elements/Be free, and fare thou well!" (¥.1.318-19). Nor is there sadness in the famous renunciation speech: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves,...ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you...
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The Classical Tradition : Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature ...

Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 pages
...quote an angry line from Dido's reproaches.47 As for magic, Prospero's incantation in The Tempest: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves...ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make Whereof the ewe not bites; and you,...
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Children's Literature of the English Renaissance

Warren W. Wooden - 1986 - 220 pages
...of early English children's literature A Child's Garden of Sprites: English Renaissance Fairy Poetry Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves,...ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back,. you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make Whereof the ewe not bites, and you,...
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Words that Taste Good

Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...physical. Poets, after all, do compare the most unlikely things! We might remember, with love, the seaside. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,...ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like that printless foot. And ebbing Neptune reminds us that allusion is so important...
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Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages ...

Charles Martindale - 1990 - 340 pages
...with Shakespeare and with one of the most wondrous tributes ever paid by one great poet to another : Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves...ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back, you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. (IV, i) FaBV; LiTB; OAEL-1; RB; TrGrPo 164 f m . demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you...
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The Gnostics

Tobias Churton - 1997 - 216 pages
...of the world that permits a Prospero to enter and do his work of transformation and reconciliation: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves...ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green, sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you...
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