| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...all thy sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call Save thou my Rose; in it thou art my all. Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made...own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new. 5 Most true it is that I have looked on truth Askance and strangely. But,... | |
| R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...What was his attitude to the business of being a playwright? Two of the sonnets, 110 with its lament, "I have gone here and there / And made myself a motley to the view" (1-2), and 111 with its complaint about depending on "public means which public manners breeds"(4),... | |
| Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...social stigma attached to the trade of acting: 'Thence comes it mat my name receives a brand' (111); 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there / And made myself a modey to the view' (110) - 'modey' is a technical term for the dress of the stage Fool. What is the... | |
| James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...an offense that is at once social and sexual.19 The speaker of sonnet 1 10, in turn, laments having "made myself a motley to the view, / Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear" (2-3). The speaker of sonnet 1 1 1 complains that his "name receives a brand, / And almost thence my... | |
| Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...unperfect actor on the stage'. In Sonnet 1 10 freely he acknowledges his life as an actor with the words: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear . . . So for Shakespeare to have been able to... | |
| Kenneth E. Kirk - Philosophy - 1999 - 466 pages
...myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new; Most true it is that I have looked on truth O for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better... | |
| Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...and defects in his own behaviour. He has gone 'here and there' in miserable, compromising journeys, made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new. Most true it is that I have looked on truth Askance and strangely. The... | |
| John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...chosen profession ('And almost thence my nature is subdued | To what it works in, like the dyer's hand'; 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there | And made myself a motley to the view'), so occasionally he could associate music with the subversively importunate claims of the sensual appetite.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...creative spirit in the world acting in his own plays before a pitfull of uncomprehending base mechanicals: 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made...mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear.' The man who used that terrible phrase, who 'gored his own thoughts' to wring shillings from the pockets... | |
| Ewan Fernie - Drama - 2002 - 298 pages
...no man well of such a salve may speak That heals the wound and cures not the disgrace. (Sonnet 34) Alas 'tis true I have gone here and there, And made...own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new. (Sonnet 110) A vague and horrible suggestiveness is the essence of these... | |
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