 Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay : our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man : the nobleness of life Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair [Embracing.  The Plays of William Shakspeare. .... - Sida 2efter William Shakespeare - 1800Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Harry Raphael Garvin, Michael Payne - 1980 - 210 sidor
...this love can only be measured in terms of the degree to which Antony will neglect his duty. He will "Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch / Of the rang'd empire fall" (1.1.33-34). Looking over the evidence of the play, Leo Kirschbaum was convinced that the playwright... | |
 | Norman Rabkin - 1981 - 176 sidor
...life as less simple and comprehensive categories than Dryden's pious assertions make them out to be: Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space, Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man; the nobleness of life Is to do... | |
 | Albert Ramsdell Gurney - 1969 - 36 sidor
...Antony replies — in some of Shakespeare's most sweeping poetry. . . . (Walks D., recites from memory:) "Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay . . . The nobleness of life Is to do thus . . ." (Pause; he looks at her;... | |
 | Sidney Homan - 1981 - 246 sidor
...itself becomes a nutshell. With his optical shift in finding a world in Cleopatra's arms, Antony can let "Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch / Of the rang'd empire fall" (1.1.33-34). The most complex statement regarding these powers of transformation that are at one with... | |
 | Malcolm Miles Kelsall - 1981 - 216 sidor
...Than this base earth should shroud your majesty... (II. iv. 57-60) — which one may liken to Antony's 'Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch / Of the rang'd empire fall' (Ii 33-4). One senses also that the strain of lifting the mind rhetorically to this level of imperial... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2004 - 264 sidor
...and note / The qualities of people" (53-4). Renouncing Rome, Antony declares his love for Cleopatra: Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space, Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man; the nobleness of life Is to do... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 sidor
...his grand wish to embrace the "nobleness of life" in Cleopatra seem to confirm Philo's description: Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space, Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man; the nobleness of life Is to do... | |
 | Albert Ramsdell Gurney - 1992 - 94 sidor
...of Shakespeare's most sweeping poetry ... (HE should be on his feet by now; reciting from memory.) "Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay ... The nobleness of life Is to do thus ..." (Pause; HE looks at her; then... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 1993 - 40 sidor
...Antony: No grave upon the earth shall clip in it A pair so famous. Act v Sc ii Antony Antony in love Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man; the nobleness of life Is to do... | |
 | James Howe - 1994 - 290 sidor
...but instead to the blindness of despair. Antony knows the cost of his love games from the very first: "Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch / Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space, / Kingdoms are clay" (1.1.33-35). He also knows what his old Roman companions think of this... | |
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