 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 372 pàgines
...which is was wish'd until he were ; And the ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth love, Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. Mas. Caesar, I bring thee word, Menecrates and... | |
 | Derek Traversi - 1963 - 300 pàgines
...universality, find issue in an image which will run in various forms like a thread through the future action : This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. [I. iv. 44.] Shakespeare's mature experience... | |
 | William Troy - 1967 - 324 pàgines
...the dominating movement of the play, as, for example, in the description of the common people which Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. Act I, Scene 4 Or the beautiful simile that... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pàgines
...this perspective, the play's audience and readers are similar to the fickle Roman populace, which, "Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, / Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, / To rot itself with motion" (1.4.45-47). But if such an approach admirably... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 pàgines
...until he were; And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared by being lacked. 41 This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. MESSENG. Caesar, I bring thee word Menecrates... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - 1993 - 164 pàgines
...to speak of The ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love . . . and, with what contempt, of how This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and fro, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. Not, on the whole then, a hopeful picture... | |
 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - 1996 - 346 pàgines
...Antony's "dotage," which "o'erflows the measure," or that of the fickle populace as Caesar describes it: This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. (1.4.44-47) Hoping to rely on Antony's leadership... | |
 | Gordon Williams - 1996 - 298 pàgines
...against the triumvirs; but his image of the fickle plebs betrays how his mind still runs on Antony: This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. (I.iv.44) Indeed, his very next words, delayed... | |
 | Carl D. Murray, Stanley F. Dermott - 1999 - 612 pàgines
...is the larger satellite Triton not suitable for this calculation for Neptune? 5 Spin-Orbit Coupling This common body. Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream. Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide. To rot itself with motion. William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra,... | |
 | John Michael Archer - 2001 - 268 pàgines
...decadence within them, as Octavius is the first to complain: It hath been taught us from the primal state. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. (1.4.41, 44-47) "Rome" and "Egypt" in Antony... | |
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Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. 
