 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 806 ページ
...master, and my lord! Cees. Not so: Adieu. [Flourish. Exeunt СЛЕЗЛВ, and his Train. Cleo. He words*6 me, girls, he words me, that I should not Be noble to myself: but hark thee, Charmiau. [Whispers CHARMIAN. Iras. Finish , good lady ; the bright day is done , And we are for the... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1991 - 232 ページ
.../ simply don't mind. It offers, he said, "an inviolable sanctuary." From people and circumstances. "Finish, good lady, the bright day is done; and we are for the dark." The sun has set over the North Pole, the night has come on. But I'm not superstitious about it. There... | |
 | Theodora A. Jankowski - 1992 - 262 ページ
...sir o' the world" (5.2.114-16, 119) Although Cleopatra is fully aware of Caesar's plot against her— "He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not / Be noble to myself" (5.2.19091)— she never tries to bring him under her sway. That she creates an elaborate final image... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - 1993 - 164 ページ
...does he, to lure her from that with his lies? She fawns on him as he leaves her; let him think he has! He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not Be noble to myself! . . . If any doubt were left, any chance of yet another of her accustomed conquests, Dolabella —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 ページ
...me, girls, he words me, that I should not 190 Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian. [whispers IRAS Finish, good lady. The bright day is done, And we are for the dark. CLEOPATRA Hie thee again, I have spoke already, and it is provided. Go put it to the haste. CHARMIAN... | |
 | Derek Ager, Derek Victor Ager - 1995 - 256 ページ
...favourite quotation from the great bard, when Iras says to Cleopatra, with a hint of catastrophism: 'Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark'. I do not believe in CP Snow's 'Two Cultures', so I hope the duller and more conventional scientists... | |
 | William J. Leonard - 1993 - 388 ページ
...big Manresa in the sky." In the play, her lady-in-waiting says to Cleopatra, who is planning suicide, Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. Against that despairing counsel St. Paul writes to his converts in Thessalonica: "It is not as if you... | |
 | Julia M. Walker - 1998 - 252 ページ
..."THAT I SHOULD NOT / BE NOBLE TO MYSELF" Cleopatra speaks of Caesar when she says to Charmian and Iras: "He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not / Be noble to myself" (5.2.191-92). As I began this chapter, I spoke of the danger of conflating the historical Cleopatra... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 356 ページ
...her passage through the Machiavel's labyrinthine policy, reveals herself cold, clear, and unconfused: He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not Be noble to myself. ... I am again for Cydnus, To meet Mark Antony. The clown, bearing the deadly asps, makes his entrance,... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 ページ
...implication — makes Cleopatra livid with fury and cements her resolution to frustrate his plans by suicide: "He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not / Be noble to myself!" (V.ii.191). Shakespeare allows the question to arise whether Cleopatra would have considered suicide... | |
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He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian. [ Whispers Charmian, Iras. Finish, good lady ; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. 
