 | John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1847 - 636 pages
...thoughts and heavenly contemplations. Both magicians can equally speak in the words of the poet : — Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sand with printlcss foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets,... | |
 | Charles Martindale - History - 1993 - 156 pages
...figures can be accommodated in English, as when Shakespeare, in Prospero's renunciation speech, writes 'Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves;...with printless foot ¡Do chase the ebbing Neptune' (Tempest v. 1.33-5). On occasion he will simply transliterate: Christians today would find it inconvenient... | |
 | Giulia D'Amico - Education - 1998 - 352 pages
...Fll break, their senses l'il restore, and they shall be themselves. Arici l'il fetch them, sir. Exn. Prospero Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and [groves; and ye that on thè sands with printless foot do chase thè ebbing Neptune, and do fly him 35 when he comes back;... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - Literary Collections - 1998 - 244 pages
...surely, as Shakespearian as anything in Shakespeare and as beautiful as anything in imaginative poetry. "Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves; And ye, that in the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back; you... | |
 | Tobias Churton - Christian heresies - 1997 - 216 pages
...of the world that permits a Prospero to enter and do his work of transformation and reconciliation: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves...chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green, sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites;... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Drama - 1999 - 334 pages
...mother Sycorax. I mean here the speech that Prospero borrows from Ovid's Medea, the passage that begins Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves, And ye that on the sands with phntless foot Do cnase the ebbing Neptune. (T, 5.1.33-50l This is the speech that goes on to claim... | |
 | A. B. Taylor - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 240 pages
...might signal its imitative and allusive qualities when the intruding voice is that of another author: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,...chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 60 pages
...who had wronged him into his power and force their repentance — he promises to abandon all sorcery. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves,...chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 436 pages
...break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves. ARIEL I'll fetch them, sir. [he goes PROSPERO Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes...chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites:... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time / Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day? [Vi1-3] 14. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves;...the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him /When he comes back; yon demi-puppets that / By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, / Whereof the ewe not bites;... | |
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