 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 202 pàgines
...Charmian, Iras, long farewell. [Kisses them. Iras falls and dies.] 293 Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still? If thus thou vanishes!, thou tell'st... | |
 | John Green, Paul Negri - 2000 - 68 pàgines
...Chairman,- Iras, long farewell. [Kisses them. lRAS/a//s and dies, Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke...thou tell'st the world It is not worth leave-taking. CHARMIAN. Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain, that I may say The gods themselves do weep! CLEOPATRA. This... | |
 | Leon Garfield - 1995 - 328 pàgines
...Iras had fallen. She lay at her mistress's feet. Cleopatra gazed down at the dead girl in wonderment. "If thou and nature can so gently part, the stroke...thou tell'st the world it is not worth leave-taking." She frowned. "This proves me base. If she first meet the curled Antony, he'll make demand of her, and... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - 2000 - 254 pàgines
...warmth of my lips. Farewell, kind Charmian. Iras, long farewell. Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke...is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired. (5.2.278-9, 287-94) Iras has now preceded, and in that calm recital of Cleopatra: The stroke of death... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 404 pàgines
...metamorphosed version of this well-worn conceit, endowing it with an astonished (and astonishing) literalness: 'The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, | Which hurts, and is desired' (5.2.294-5). The agent of that stroke, the asp, is delivered by a Clown whose eldritch humour identifies... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pàgines
...crown. I have Immortal longings in me Husband, I come. Now to that name my courage prove my title. The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired O Antony! (5. 2. 275-307) Cleopatra tells her own story. It is not the only story the play tells. But... | |
 | Theodore Vrettos - 2010 - 290 pàgines
...Charmian; Iras, long farewell. (kisses them. Iras falls and dies.) Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke...thou tell'st the world It is not worth leave-taking. CHARMIAN: Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain; that I may say The gods themselves do weep. CLEOPATRA: This... | |
 | Susannah York, William Shakespeare - 2001 - 124 pàgines
...Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell. Iras falls and dies Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke...of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts, and is desir'd. Dost thou lie still? If thus thou vanishest, thou tells the world It is not worth leave-taking.... | |
 | Eric Partridge - 2001 - 312 pàgines
...love-making. (Cleopatra) 'Think on me, That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black', A & C, iv 26-27.— 'The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch. Which hurts, and is desir'd', says Cleopatra, whose dictum exacts respect (v ii 295-296). The n. derives from the v, which... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 228 pàgines
...warmth of my lips. Farewell, kind Charmian. Iras, long farewell. Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke...is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired. (5.2.278-9, 287-94) Iras has now preceded, and in that calm recital of Cleopatra, The stroke of death... | |
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I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life. So, have you done? Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips. Farewell kind Charmian, Iras, long farewell. 
