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" Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book. "
The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Page 64
by William Shakespeare - 1767
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The Fantastic Other: An Interface of Perspectives

Brett Cooke, Jaume Martí-Olivella, George Edgar Slusser - History - 1998 - 312 pages
...even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff. Bury it certain fathoms in the earth. And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. (110} Perhaps Faustus ' offer is insincere; he never actually sets the fire...
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Making Subject(s): Literature and the Emergence of National Identity

Allen Webb - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 264 pages
...is not to forget what he has learned or to put the knowledge away from him but to "break my staff, / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, / And deeper than did ever plummet sound / I'll drown my book" (V, i, 54-6). In this passage books and staffs are equated, and repudiation...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...rounded with a sleep. 10490 The Tempest But this rough magic I here abjure ... ...I'll break my staff, rrow too. Can 1 see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief. 1364 sound, I'll drown my book. 10491 The Tempest How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has...
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Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems

A. B. Taylor - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 240 pages
...even now I do To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. (5. i .33-57) This speech derives from a magical episode in Ovid's Metamorphoses,...
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 60 pages
...even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. demi-puppets — tiny spirits green sour ringlets — circles that appear...
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Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-garde

Libbie Rifkin - American poetry - 2000 - 186 pages
...which even now I do to work mine end upon their senses That this aery charm is for I'll break My staff bury it certain fathoms in the earth And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. It is 5:15 am Dear Chris, hello. (72) Berrigan composed the first eighty-seven...
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The Tempest

Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 38 pages
...let them forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure; . . . I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book. Act v Sc i To solemn music, Prospero restores his prisoners to their senses....
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...now I do,- /To work mine end upon their senses, that /This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, / And deeper than did ever plummet sound / I'll drown my book. [^¡.33-57] pensable es Antonio en Milán, y Sebastián en Nápoles. Presumiblemente...
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Four Late Plays

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 436 pages
...even now I do — To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. [ 'solemn music' 'Here enters ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a frantic gesture,...
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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the ...

Will Durant - History - 2002 - 351 pages
...'em forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure. . . . I'll break my staff, Burj it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. And perhaps it is Shakespeare again, rejoiced by his daughter and his grandchild,...
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