 | Dorothy J. Crawford, Dorothy J. Thompson - 1971 - 298 ページ
....'. VII IRRIGATION AND AGRICULTURE they take the flow o' the Nile By certain scales i' the Pyramid; they know By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foizon follow: the higher Nilus swells, The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime... | |
 | 1904 - 1070 ページ
...tempering the ardour of the scorching sun. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as it ehbs the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. Day by day and year by year this seedsman, as Shakespeare makes Antony name him, with his body in the... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - 422 ページ
...banquet: Antony: Thus do they sir: they take the flow of the Nile By certain scale, in the pyramid; they know By the height, the lowness, or the mean,...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. Lepidus: You've strange serpents there. Antony: Ay, Lepidus. Lepidus: Your serpent of Egypt is bred... | |
 | Linda Bamber - 1982 - 223 ページ
...his destiny as a lover. She represents the Egypt Antony describes to Lepidus when he returns to Rome: The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises; as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. (II. vii. 21-24) 46 Antony and Cleopatra This Cleopatra is not so much a character in her own right... | |
 | Thomas Crump - 1992 - 216 ページ
...bodies to be sighted. 26 The whole somewhat involved process is well explained in Krupp (1984: 192). 27 [...]the higher Nilus swells The more it promises:...slime and ooze scatters his grain. And shortly comes the harvest. Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene VII. Note also the Andamanese 'who have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 ページ
...do they, sir: they take the flow o'th'Nile By certain scales i'th'pyramid; they know By th'height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow:...swells, The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman 20 Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, And't shortly comes to harvest. You've strange serpents... | |
 | James Howe - 1994 - 290 ページ
...members to make new" (1.2. 163-65). Antony's comment on the Nile makes the same point: one knows By th' height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. (2.7.19-23) The human dimension, the changing fortunes of political, military, and amorous striving,... | |
 | John Gillies - 1994 - 312 ページ
...Nile. The feast on Pompey's barge begins with a geography lesson on the flooding of the Nile: . . . The higher Nilus swells. The more it promises; as...scatters his grain. And shortly comes to harvest. (2.7.20-24) But it is not long before the lesson takes a carnivalesque turn. Lepidus interrupts with... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 ページ
...tumescence promises bountiful fertility: they take the flow o' the Nile By certain scales i' in the pyramid; they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean,...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. (Il.vii. 1 7-23) To Cleopatra, the end of life is not corporeal death, but her body hoisted up as a... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 ページ
...her, and she cropped' - ii. ii. 230) and the continued association of Cleopatra with the teeming Nile ('the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, / And shortly comes to harvest' - n. vii. 22-4) again draws a close connection between the childbearing woman and the fertile landscape.... | |
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They take the flow o' the Nile By certain scales i' the pyramid ; they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters... 
