 Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste...  British Theatre - Seite 56von John Bell - 1791Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 Seiten
...unchanging glances of affection. BYBON. UNBELIEF, — (See SCEPTICISM.) VANITY. — (See PRIDE.) VARIETY. Wherefore did nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and umvithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, But all to please and sate... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 Seiten
...Camus. O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean...Abstinence. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth, 710 With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 Seiten
...Comus. O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean...bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 Seiten
...Comus. O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean...Abstinence. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth 710 With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, —... | |
 | 1909 - 502 Seiten
...Comus. O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean...bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 Seiten
...Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969), pp. 130-140. 17. The question of Comus ("Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth / With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?") still rattles in the head of the Adam of Paradise Lost. Geoffrey Hartman points to Adam's vexation... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 Seiten
...play by Milton's Comus, attempting to seduce the virgin Lady by a fallacious argument from design: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odors, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all... | |
 | Jonathan Sawday - 1995 - 382 Seiten
...an invitation to possess nature, to master and hence control the superfluity of the natural world: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth. With such a full and unwithdrawing hand. Covering the seas with spawn innumerable. But all to please, and sate the curious taste? And set to... | |
 | Chris Fitter - 1995 - 358 Seiten
...teeming Nature who 'pour[s] her bounties forth, / With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, / Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, / Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable'.388 His habitual sense of the inwardly driven object made Milton the first, it appears,... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 Seiten
...through their Shakespearean analogues. Nature, like Shakespeare's imagination, is riotously fecund: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odors, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the Seas with spawn innumerable, But all... | |
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