| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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