 | Benson Bobrick - 2006 - 385 pàgines
..."dull." That is perhaps what Shakespeare's Helena means in All's Well That Ends Well when she exclaims: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, / Which we...pull / Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull." The lingo of astrologers came in for some mocking, of course. In John Marston's The Malcontent, a whore... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2006 - 186 pàgines
...marriage to Bertram; and she construes a philosophy that will permit it, as well as a specific plan: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven. The fated sky Gives me free scope, only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull .... The King's... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pàgines
...great clarity. Helena in All's Well, a player in this spirit war, is notably clear, or seems to be. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. (1.1) This passage became my touchstone for "Pelagian" Shakespeare, who doesn't believe there's a crack... | |
 | Penny Gay - 2008
...wisdom to the audience, and at the same time indicates that this woman intends to pursue her desires: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. . . . Impossible be strange attempts to those That weigh their pains in sense, and do suppose What... | |
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. 
