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" The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. "
Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream - Page 5
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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莎士比亞通論: 喜劇

顏元叔 - Comedy - 2001 - 838 pages
...邊的三位近臣或執友, 相約要過三 年苦行僧的生活, 日夜寒窗苦讀, 決不接近女色: King. Therefore, brave conquerors @ for so you are, That...affections And the huge army of the world's desires @ Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: Navarreshallbethewonderoftheworld; Ourcourtsha@@bea@@tt@eacademe,...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...And then grace us in the disgrace of death : When spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall...scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. (li) He is, in Granville-Barker's words, 'a bundle of phrases' ; he speaks in strings of commonplace...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...shall bate his scythe s keen edge, /And make us heirs of all eternity. /Therefore, brave conquerors-for so you are, / That war against your own affections / And the huge army of the world's desires- / Our La elocuencia en broma, con su grandioso vocabulario de muerte, tiempo, guerra y deseo, no oculta...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...then grace us, in the disgrace of death, When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall...affections And the huge army of the world's desires — Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Our court...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...devouring Time, Th'endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen last; Dissemble all your griefs and discontents: You...throne; Lest, then, the people, and patricians too, — Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Our court...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 46

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...art (they are seeking fame), and that study, based on reason, is all too vulnerable to 'affections': Therefore, brave conquerors - for so you are, That...affections And the huge army of the world's desires (1.1.8-10) 'Affections' means here both perturbations or diseases (OED, affection sb 10) and desires.32...
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The Laws of Life

James Shane - Religion - 2002 - 710 pages
...character, which was a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial. Shakespeare: Brave conquerors 1 for so you are: that war against your own affections and the huge army of the world's desires. John Sterling: The worst education, which teaches self-denial is better than the best, which teaches...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 50

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...genius of the French language if we translate: When, spite of cormorant devouring time, Th'endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge (Love's Labour's Lost, 1.1.4-6) by: Contre le Temps vorace cormoran Puisse aujourd'hui l'effort de...
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Increase and Multiply: Governing Cultural Reproduction in Early Modern England

David Glimp - Demography - 2003 - 264 pages
...death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors—for so you are That war against your own affections And the huge army of the world's desires—...
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Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters

Frederick Kiefer - Literary Collections - 2003 - 378 pages
...death; When spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. (1.1.1-7) Although Navarre seems to envision his fame as triumphing over time, a contemporary of Shakespeare's,...
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