| William Toone - English language - 1832 - 504 pages
...the kissing of her batlet, As You LIEE IT. BATTEN, to fatten, to get flesh, to fertilize. Could yon on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? HAMLET. We drove afield, Battening oar flocks with the fresh dews of night. MILTON'S LYCIDAS. BAUBLE... | |
| William Toone - English language - 1834 - 498 pages
...remember the kissing of her but let. As You LIKE IT. BATTEN, to fatten, to get flesh, to fertilize. Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor ? HAMLET. We drove afield, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. MILTON'S LytinAS. BAUBLE... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain...love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgement; and what judgement Would step from this to this? Sense sure... | |
| Evangeline Machlin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 268 pages
...husband./ Look you now what follows: Here is your husband, like a mildew 'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. /Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor?/Ha! have you eyes?/ You cannot call it love, for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame,... | |
| Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 1006 pages
...the animal-feed imagery, echoing his first soliloquy's complaint of Gertrude's voracious appetite: Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed And batten on this moor? He has dared to hold her chin to make her look. The son handling the mother. A thick sensuality may... | |
| Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...like the same activity: the imagery of devouring common to both tends to flatten out the distinction. "Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed / And batten on this moor?" Hamlet asks his mother (3.4.66-67), insisting again on a difference that seems largely without substance,... | |
| Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...simply rhetorical; the other disputant in this moral debate may just possibly have a counter-argument. 'You cannot call it love, for at your age / The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble' (lines 68-9) is aggressive, yet meant to persuade; surely, he seems to insist, you accept... | |
| Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? You cannot call it love, for at your age The heydey in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon... | |
| Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...pale cast of thought" (3. i. 83). There are also more immediate riddles. His mother — how could she "on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor" (3.4.67)? The ghost — which may be a devil, for "the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape"... | |
| William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain...love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment, and what judgment Would step from this to this? Sense sure... | |
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