 Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings; Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now,— instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4501808Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 564 pages
...marches to delightful measures.' Grim-visag'd war hath smooth"'d his wrinkled front; And now,—instead of mounting barbed steeds,' To fright the souls of...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I,—that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass ; To strut... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 592 pages
...measures. 2 Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now,—instead of mounting barbed 3 steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,—...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I,—that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1850 - 516 pages
...among men The Holy War is o'er, and the strife of the Roses ended. The grim-visaged god Hath smoothed his wrinkled front : And now, instead of mounting...steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries " Taste is seen caparisoned for the turf ; and in 1683, two years before he parted with his head upon... | |
 | Francis Douce - Clowns in literature - 1839 - 678 pages
...knowledge, but infinitely less genius than our author. KING RICHARD III. ACT I. SCENE 1. Page 461. GLO. He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. THE question with Dr. Johnson is, whether it be war that capers, or York; and he justly remarks that if the latter,... | |
 | Scotland - 1839 - 892 pages
...adulter," the regular "fancy. man," the pet of the petticoats, whose noblest accomplishment is " To caper nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute ; " in short, a species of slightly mitigated Mantalini, in high life of the year BC I I93. To us the... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 700 pages
...wee sma' hour ayont the twa'l" in the early spring, was a matter somewhat different from capering " nimbly in a lady's chamber, to the lascivious pleasing of a lute." 3, Crescent Carlisle, ON GETTING UP A HEAD OF GAME. Among the various topics which are discussed in... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1840 - 550 pages
...Compare Balchvyne's Pro222 NICCOLS'S MIRROtIR FOR MAGISTRATES. [SECT. I.. To fright the souls of fearfull adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute." These lines evidently gave rise to part of Richard's soliloquy in Niccols's Legend. The battels fought... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1840 - 548 pages
...Shakspear?. — ь Fol. 555. Рлпк.] * Fol. 253. Compare Baldwyne's ProTo fright the souls of fearfull adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.c These lines evidently gave rise to part of Richard's soliloquy in Niccols's Legend. The battels... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds BoTP; TrGrPo 399 POETRY QUOTATIONS (I, i) 96 I. that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;... | |
 | Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...monuments, Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visag'd War hath smooth'd his wrinkled front:...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that... | |
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