 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew; And sate the lion'f, shadow ere himself,' And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand 10 Upon the wild sea-banks, and wav'd her love To come again to Carthage. Jes. In such a night Medea... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew; And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, 9 And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand 10 Upon the wild sea-banks, and wav'd her love To come again to Carthage. Jes. In such a night Medea... | |
 | M. C. Bradbrook - Drama - 1980 - 284 pages
...wives With bleared visages come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Compare the lighter passage: In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage . . . In such a night Did Jessica steal from the... | |
 | Colin Bingham - Political science - 1982 - 376 pages
...Grey, gave us an example of this 'sound of the meaning' Lorenzo's lines from The Merchant of Venice: In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage. Newbolt attributed the beauty of this passage... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill. Or of the idyllic love-duet:12 In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage. The poet who wrote like that knew and loved... | |
 | George Steiner - History - 1984 - 448 pages
...fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, And ran dismayed away. LORENZO: In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage. JESSICA: In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted... | |
 | Charles Martindale - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 340 pages
...Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismayed away. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage. In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs... | |
 | Kristin Linklater - Drama - 1992 - 236 pages
...fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself. And ran dismayed away. Lorenzo: In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage. Jessica: In such a night Medea gathered the... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...unambiguous instance of an allusion to the second half of the poem). He has haunting words for Dido: In sueh a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To eome again to Carthage (Merchant of Venire 5. i. 9-12), and in the... | |
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In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage. 
