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" Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale. "
Merchant of Venice. As you like it - Page 40
by William Shakespeare - 1785
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Literatur und Lebenskunst: Festschrift für Gerd Rohmann

Eva Oppermann - Authorship - 2006 - 302 pages
...landläufigen Existenz des Menschen wird antizipiert und ist mit seinem Zeiterlebnis gleichzusetzen: And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then...to hour, we rot and rot. And thereby hangs a tale. (II, 7, 25-28) ,Hour' und , whore' waren Homophone im 16. Jahrhundert ebenso wie , tale' and ,tail'...
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German Shakespeare Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

Christa Jansohn - English drama - 2006 - 324 pages
...he first encountered Touchstone in the Forest of Arden and how the fool's grim wit made him laugh: When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative, And I did laugh sans intermission An hour by his dial....
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Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith

John D. Cox - Knowledge, Theory of, in literature - 2007 - 368 pages
...in his outlook than Jaques himself. Jaques approvingly quotes Touchstone's summary of passing time, "And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, / And then from hour to hour we rot and rot" (2.7.26-27), which seems to inspire his own meditation on human vanity: "All the world's a stage, /...
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The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A Memoir

David Shields - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 257 pages
...— a change which he viewed as not only inevitable but desirable. In As You Like It, Jaques says, "And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, / And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot." The Sullivan County (NT) Yellow Pages informs its readers that "the process of living means that we...
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