 | Peter Holland - 2000 - 376 pagina’s
...part - or bit — of the description of Hero's baroque outf1t (lines 9—36): Her wide sleeves greene, and bordered with a grove. Where Venus in her naked glory strove. To please the carelesse and disdainfull eies, Of proud Adonis that before her lies. (lines 11-14) Like Shakespeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 684 pagina’s
...transcendent beauty.' In his Her o and Leander [I, 1 1-14] he thus describes the lady's dress": Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove, Where Venus...and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis that before her lies.1 Then in his ed. 1821 (pp. 87 f.) Malone quotes a song from Greene's novel, Greenes Neuer too... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 768 pagina’s
...love of Venus and Adonis lurking on the hem of Hero's gown: i 1cr wide slveves green, and honlered with a grove, Where Venus in her naked glory strove...the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis, thai hefore her lies.1 Shakespeare may plucked this detail from lalmnst literallyi the margin of Marlowe's... | |
 | Anthony Hecht - 2003 - 334 pagina’s
...subordinate clause to lighten, however slightly, the weight of the rhymed couplets: Here wide sleeves greene, and bordered with a grove, Where Venus in her naked glory strove, To please the careless and disdainfull eies Of proud Adonis that before her lies. i. Jacques Barzun, An Essay on French Verse... | |
 | Alastair Fowler - 2003 - 314 pagina’s
...true of non-dramatic insets. In Hera and Leander (1598), Hero's wide sleeves are greene, and hordered with a grove. Where Venus in her naked glory strove, To please the carelesse and disdainfull eies Of proud Adonis . . .74 (Hera and Leander, i. 11-14). Hero wears lirerature... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - 2004 - 346 pagina’s
...heroine in "garments" (9) artistically depicting the Venus and Adonis myth: "Her wide sleeves greene, and bordered with a grove, / Where Venus in her naked...glory strove / To please the careless and disdainful eies / Of proud Adonis that before her lies" (1. 11-14). Hero's complete attire - "myrtle wreath" (17)... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2005 - 272 pagina’s
...Pyrrhus: The outside of her garments were of lawn, The lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove Where Venus...blood of wretched lovers slain. Upon her head she ware a myrtle wreath, From whence her veil reached to the ground beneath: Her veil was artificial flowers... | |
 | Vernon Lee - 2006 - 384 pagina’s
...lawn, like those of Hero2 in his own poem: The lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove Where Venus,...Adonis, that before her lies; Her kirtle blue.... Upon her head she wore a myrtle wreath From whence her veil reached to the ground beneath; Her veil... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2006 - 206 pagina’s
...nymphs ie his beauty makes theirs seem tarnished. Marlowe also uses the word 'stain' effectively: eg 'Her kirtle blue, whereon was many a stain / Made with the blood of wretched lovers slain' (HL 1.15-16), which plays on 'stain' as 'sign of guilt' and as 'embellishment'. Both he and Shakespeare... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe, Stephen Orgel - 2007 - 322 pagina’s
...The outside of her garments were of lawn, The lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; 1 Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove, Where Venus...blood of wretched lovers slain. Upon her head she ware a myrtle wreath, From whence her veil reached to the ground beneath. Her veil was artificial flowers... | |
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Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove, Where Venus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis, that before her lies ; Her kirtle blue, whereon was many a stain, Made with the blood of wretched lovers... 
