 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 630 pages
...outwork nature : on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With diverse-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid, did. Agr. O, rare for Antony ! Eno. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many... | |
 | John Drakakis, Terence Hawkes - Drama - 1985 - 324 pages
...participating in it. The boys in Cleopatra's barge are also active. They hold, Enobarbus says, 'divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, / And what they undid did'. The meaning of these unberalded oxymorons, on the basis of the syntax,... | |
 | Peggy Muñoz Simonds - Art and literature - 1992 - 412 pages
...outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-color'd fans, whose wind did seem To [glow] the delicate cheeks which they did cool. And what they undid did. (2.2.191-205) We should notice the implied comparison here between Cleopatra... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colored fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. And what they undid did. (II, ii) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) Ill's Well That Ends Well 1 Our remedies... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...is conveyed: On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured fans whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did.19 After Antony is dead, Proculeius advises Cleopatra: Do not abuse my master's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. You can see at once the difference between the relatively inert catalogue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colored fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' th' eyes,... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...outwork nature. On each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. (ll.ii. 197-205) In the historian's narrative there is no mention of mimetic... | |
 | Gordon Williams - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 298 pages
...the barge, those 'pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids', had stood beside the queen plying their fans whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. (II.ii.209) Cydnus was the start of an affair which would culminate, like... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured fans whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i'th'... | |
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O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did .... 
