 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 ページ
...would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood: And you should, if you please, refuse, 10 Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. A hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze. 15 Two hundred to adore each... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Smuts - 1996 - 314 ページ
...Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide Of Humber would complain, I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should if you please refuse Till the Conversion of the Jews, 10 My vegetable Love should grow Vaster man Empires, and more slow, An hundred years should go to praise... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1996 - 238 ページ
...lover; he would prolong the wooing to the end of time: I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should if you please refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. She deserves to be possessed at such a rate, and he's the man to do it. She is worth waiting for. But... | |
 | H. L. Hix - 1997 - 212 ページ
...Marvell points out the lack of urgency in such praise. "Had we but world enough, and time," he says, My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires...adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest. Lovers, though, cannot afford such leisure, since "time's winged chariot" is always "hurrying near."... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 1997 - 146 ページ
...enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime, ... I would Love you ten years hefore the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews; My vegetahle love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow. . . . We notice the high speed, the succession... | |
 | Richard Bradford - 1997 - 284 ページ
...Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ren years before the Flood: And you should if you please refuse Till the Conversion of the Jew's. My vegatable Love should grow Vasrer than Empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go... | |
 | David Haley - 1997 - 316 ページ
...distanced from the lover's words to his Coy Mistress: he would "Love you ten years before the Flood: / And you should if you please refuse / Till the Conversion of the Jews."29 Flood and Apocalypse are the limits of the providential time series from which the poet has... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 ページ
...exaggeration for comic or dramatic effect. Andrew Marvell uses hyperbole in "To His Coy Mistress": An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and...adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest. Iamb: Metrical unit or foot in which the first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed. "The... | |
 | John Matthews - 1999 - 292 ページ
...Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide Of Humher would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood: And you should if you please refuse Till the Conversion of the Jews. Certainly there are differences between the two texts. Marvell substitutes for "Peru" his Yorkshite... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber, Rebecca L. Walkowitz - 1999 - 344 ページ
...project so proverbially formidable that the poet Andrew Marvell could equate it with eternity I"And you should, if you please, refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews" I, so ideologically desirable and hotly contested that it formed a central tenet of Protestant Evangelism... | |
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Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. 
