 | William Shakespeare - Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character) - 1861 - 510 pages
...Most sovereign creature, — Cleo. His legs bestrid the ocean ; his rear'd arm Crested the world ; his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres,...rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in 't ; an autumn 'twas, That grew the more by reaping : his delights Were dolphin-like ; they shew'd... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...earns a place i' the story. (HI, xiii) 7 His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm Crested the world; . ( . in 't; an autumn it was That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphinlike; they showed his... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...and lighted The little O, the earth. His legs bestrid the ocean, his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres,...dolphin-like, they show'd his back above The element they lived in: in his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets: realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...the ocean, his reared arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, 111 and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and...more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like, they showed his back above The element they lived in. 132 In his livery 90 Walked crowns and crownets; realms... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - Drama - 1985 - 300 pages
...massive, upright, and in control: "His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm / Crested the world: his voice was propertied / As all the tuned spheres,...quail and shake the orb, / He was as rattling thunder" (V.ii. 82-86). In the protected space of the dream, Antony's conflicts become rich paradoxes; his vacillation,... | |
 | Richard Todd, Douglas C. Wilson - Education - 1992 - 266 pages
...following lines from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in which Cleopatra eulogizes her dead lover: For his bounty, There was no winter in't: an autumn...Were dolphin-like, they show'd his back above The elements they lived in: in his livery Walk'd crown and crownets: realms and islands were As plates... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1995 - 304 pages
...and lighted The little O o'th'earth ... His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm Crested the world. His voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres,...more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like; they showed his back above The element they lived in. In his livery Walked crowns and crownets. Realms and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...and lighted The little O, th' earth. His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres,...more by reaping: his delights Were dolphin-like, they showed his back above The element they lived in: in his livery Walked crowns and crownets: realms and... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Drama - 1997 - 294 pages
...transcendence of all stinginess and pettiness: For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an [autumn] it was That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like,...crowns and crownets; realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from his pocket. (5.2.86) Cleopatra has the same alchemical power as her lover, transforming... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...Dolabella. Most sovereign creature, Cleopatra. His legs bestrid the ocean, his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres,...dolphin-like, they show'd his back above The element they lived in: in his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets: realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from... | |
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His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. 
