 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pàgines
...Mocks married men, for thus sings he. Cuckoo, cuckoo! O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. GoTS; GTBS; GTBS-P; OBEV BARNAHE GOUGE (1540-1594)...For friends are gone come once adversity. When mone (V, ii) BoTP; EIL; FF; FiP; HAP; HelP; InPK; NAEL-1; NBLV; NIP; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEV; OBSC; PBBP;... | |
 | Laura Erickson - 410 pàgines
...robin is here. Its song, a two-noted "cuckoo" exactly like the clock, inspired Shakespeare to write, "The cuckoo, then, on every tree,/ Mocks married men;...cuckoo: O word of fear,/ Unpleasing to a married ear." He also wrote, "He was but as the cuckoo is in June,/ Heard, not regarded." Shakespeare made many allusions... | |
 | 229 pàgines
...When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then...cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks; When turtles tread, and... | |
 | S. K. Heninger - 1994 - 228 pàgines
...When daisies pied, and violets blue. And lady-smocks all silver-white. And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then...thus sings he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo" — O word of tear, Un pleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pàgines
...married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! visions did appear. And this weak an О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1996 - 616 pàgines
...nightingale's: see gloss to Pleasures 3.473 (p. 461 above). 19-21: cf. Loves Labours Lost 5.2.898-902: "The cuckoo then on every tree / Mocks married men;...— O word of fear, / Unpleasing to a married ear! " ODE IV: TO THE HONOURABLE CHARLES TOWNSHEND IN THE COUNTRY. MDCCL First published in 1772a; subsequently... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pàgines
...daisies pied and violets blue / And lady-smocks all silver white / And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight. /The cuckoo then,...cuckoo: O word of fear, / Unpleasing to a married ear! /When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, /And merry larks are ploughman's clocks, /When turtles tread,... | |
 | 顏元叔 - 2001 - 838 pàgines
...Spring. When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then,...cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughman's clocks, When turtles tread, and... | |
 | Erich Segal - 2009 - 612 pàgines
...the theme of almost every comedy. Shakespeare testifies to this universality in a delightful song: The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men;...Cuckoo, cuckoo"; O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!103 the model of the dutiful, morigera wife, whose highest ambition would be lifelong devotion... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pàgines
...married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! ierce endeavour of your wit To enforce the pained...ROSALINE. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Wh О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WINTER. When icicles hanc by the wall, And Dick the shepherd... | |
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When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks; When turtles tread, and rooks and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he: Cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo —... 
