 ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent...  Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes - Page 214by William Shakespeare - 1773Full view - About this book
 | George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. (Hamlet, n, ii, 313) We may suppose, in fact we know,... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...this most excellent 310 canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging [firmament] this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! 315 How noble in reason! how infinite... | |
 | Samuel Crowl - English drama - 2003 - 289 pages
...promontory. This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors" (2.2.293-301). The sparkling Manhattan skyline becomes in the film... | |
 | Hendrijke Haufe, Andrea Sieber - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 352 pages
...promontory. This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in... | |
 | James R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner - Performing Arts - 2014 - 208 pages
...promontory. This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite... | |
 | S. H. Talcott - 2003 - 324 pages
...promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestic roof fretted with golden fire, why it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors." Acute Melancholia.-—Acute melancholia is generally the result... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite... | |
 | Franco Ferrucci - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 218 pages
...velenosa: This most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging, this majestical rooffretted with golden fire why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent con gregation ofvapours. [II, ii, 301-305] Questo stupendo padiglione di aria, guardate,... | |
 | Richard J. Norman - Secular humanism - 2004 - 192 pages
...promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What looked like an optimistic affirmation of human... | |
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