 | John D. Cox - 2007 - 368 pàgines
...outlook than Jaques himself. Jaques approvingly quotes Touchstone's summary of passing time, "And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, / And then from hour to hour we rot and rot" (2.7.26-27), which seems to inspire his own meditation on human vanity: "All the world's a stage, /... | |
 | David Shields - 2008 - 257 pàgines
...change which he viewed as not only inevitable but desirable. In As You Like It, Jaques says, "And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, / And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot." The Sullivan County (NT) Yellow Pages informs its readers that "the process of living means that we... | |
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Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale. 
