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" O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. And what they undid, did.... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and ... - Page 145
by William Shakespeare - 1765
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colored fans, whose wind did seem ity Press (II, ii) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) Ill's Well That Ends Well 1 Our remedies oft in ourselves...
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Myth, Emblem, and Music in Shakespeare's Cymbeline: An Iconographic ...

Peggy Muņoz Simonds - Art and literature - 1992 - 412 pages
...side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-color'd fans, whose wind did seem To [glow] the delicate cheeks which they did cool. And what they undid did. (2.2.191-205) We should notice the implied comparison here between Cleopatra and the Venus genetrix...
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Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. You can see at once the difference between the relatively inert catalogue of details offered by Plutarch...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 45

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured fans whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did.19 After Antony is dead, Proculeius advises Cleopatra: Do not abuse my master's bounty by Th'undoing...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colored fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' th' eyes, And made their bends...
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Shakespeare's Theory of Drama

Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. (ll.ii. 197-205) In the historian's narrative there is no mention of mimetic inadequacy, although he...
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Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution

Gordon Williams - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 298 pages
...dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids', had stood beside the queen plying their fans whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. (II.ii.209) Cydnus was the start of an affair which would culminate, like the alchemist's work, with...
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The Genius of Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured fans whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. . . . Her gendewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i'th' eyes. And made their bends...
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Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love and Money

Frederick Turner - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 232 pages
...side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colored fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' th' eyes, And made their...
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The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - Generals - 2000 - 404 pages
...Adelman, p. 113. ' Puttenham, p. 226, cited in Adelman, Common Liar, p. 113. 1 Adelman, ibid., p. 115. To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. 2.2.209-12 That last phrase, 'what they undid did', with a characteristically vertiginous reflexiveness,...
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