 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...Reyes), tal vez la advertencia de Ulises es otra descortés bofetada a Jonson, cuyo deseo de emin. Uliss. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, / A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. /Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd / As fast... | |
 | Tony Vaux, Anthony Vaux - Business & Economics - 2013 - 252 pages
...to get out of his tent and take action, Ulysses used the argument that the past is soon forgotten: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. These scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as... | |
 | Nicholas Delbanco - Fiction - 2000 - 242 pages
...no doubt in part—because their teeth were bad. As a character in Troilus and Cressida reminds us, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion." Smile. Recently two of my "masters" have died. I use the word with some particularity; they were my... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...Sh.) says: 'A variation of the fable is found in Tro. &• Cress., IlI, iii, 145, where Ulysses says, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion."' But this is again a note on Johnson and not on this passage in Coriolanus. — ED.] one that loues... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...developing the kind of reflective and intellectual style we see in Ulysses' speech to Achilles on Time: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...which the sequence of images of over-eating, uncurrent coin and beggary anticipate Ulysses' speech 'Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion' (3.3.145-6). Dio remarks that Perseus carried in his wallet the Gorgon's head with which to turn men... | |
 | Susan J. Rosowski - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 316 pages
...humanity's fickle memory, noting that the public quickly forgets anyone whom it cannot see: "Titne hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, / A great-sized monster of ingratitudes" (3.3.146-47, emphasis added). We cannot determine whether or not... | |
 | A. T. Robertson - Religion - 2003 - 422 pages
...that they were not so much \f\pcn (spouseless) as ттfjpаi (pouchless). He cites also Shakespeare10 "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion."" the seventy (Luke 10:7), only with the term meaning "reward," Luабoû, instead of "food," тpофг|с.... | |
 | Michael Spitzer - Music - 2004 - 392 pages
...considers a well-known metaphor from Troilus and Cressida, by which Shakespeare compares time to a beggar: "time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back wherein he puts alms for oblivion" ( 164). In seeing time as a beggar, we must suspend its normal reference to physical reality in order... | |
 | Colin Butler - Drama - 2005 - 217 pages
...refreshed. In Troilus and Cressida, Achilles asks, "What, are my deeds forgot?" and Ulysses slyly explains, Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as... | |
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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done... 
