| Marianne Novy - Drama - 1990 - 276 pages
...the power of "merit" (1.1.223) and individual effort, and resists any notion that her fate is fixed: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, / Which we...pull / Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. . . . my project may deceive me, / But my intents are fix'd, and will not leave me" (1.1.212-15; 224-25).... | |
| Literature - 1992 - 782 pages
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| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...cool. And what they undid did. (II, ii) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) Ill's Well That Ends Well 1 Q (I, i) 2 Thy blood and virtue Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness Share with thy birthright!... | |
| David Haley - Drama - 1993 - 332 pages
...allows the heroine to interpret her desire for Bertram as an auspicious sign beckoning her to Paris: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. Which we ascribe...brings To join like likes, and kiss like native things. (212-19) As Hunter comments, the word mounts implies an image from hawking. "Helena can see her prey... | |
| Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...curative role of imagination, which Shakespeare so clearly demonstrates, is yet a live issue to-day. 'Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.' (All's Well That Ends Well 1.1.212) III.6 Mind and Body Sexuality 'There was good sport at his making'... | |
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