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" What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend ? Since every one hath, every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you ; On Helen's... "
Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is prefixed ... - Page 4
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000

Herbert Blau - Performing Arts - 2002 - 378 pages
...called Crooked Eclipses,1* working through the ceaseless permutations of the impasse of appearance: "What is your substance, whereof are you made, / That millions of strange shadows on you tend?" (53, ll. 1-2). This is the sort of insoluble question that is hard pressed in critical theory, with...
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The Complete Sonnets and Poems

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 768 pages
...easel', to 'willingness to granl favours'. Like functinns as an adlertive, hut also pussihly as verh. 53 What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Stnce every one hath, every one, one shade, And you, bot one, can every shadow lend. Oescrihe Adonis,...
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The Shakespeare Enigma

Peter Dawkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 159 pages
...relevant sonnets are hymns of praise for the higher self, the author, by the lower self, the writer: What is your substance, whereof are you made, That...Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year, The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear;...
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Sonetos

William Shakespeare - 2004 - 342 pages
...triunfo; ausente, la esperanza. VyHAT is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions ofstrange shadows on you tend? Since every one hath, every one,...and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you; On Helens cheek all art ofbeauty set, And you in Crecian tires are painted new: Speak ofthe spring andfoison...
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Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea

Steven Dillon - Performing Arts - 2004 - 292 pages
...and, finally, images of flame. And it is in darkness, amidst these flames, that we hear sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath, every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and...
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Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900

Kevin E. O'Donnell, Helen Hollingsworth - History - 2004 - 414 pages
...might have had a vision of this vast continent, though he did not refer to it, when he exclaimed: — "What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend?"19 Bakersville, the capital of Mitchell County, is eight miles from the top of Roan, and the...
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Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets

J. B. Leishman - Drama - 2005 - 264 pages
...go one better, to go just a step beyond, the traditional hyperboles and encomia of preceding poets. What is your substance, whereof are you made, That...Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year, The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear;...
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The Spirit of Romance

Ezra Pound - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 264 pages
...mirrors to nature, should occasionally reflect the same detail. It is true that Shakespear's lines : What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend t seem like a marriage of words from Guido Orlandi's sonnet to Guide Cavalcanti, and from one of Cavalcanti's...
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Charting Shakespearean Waters: Text and Theatre

Niels Bugge Hansen, Søs Haugaard - Drama - 2005 - 170 pages
...Sonnet 53 we are more directly confronted with the philosophical scope inherent in the word 'substance': 'What is your substance, whereof are you made, / That millions of strange shadows on you tend?' (Sonnet 53). The rhetorical question expresses the poet's wonder at the young man's beauty: What matter...
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On Horseback: A Tour in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee

Charles Dudley Warner - Travel - 2005 - 341 pages
...vision of this vast continent, though he did not refer to it, when he exclaimed : — " What is yoar substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend * " Bakersville, the capital of Mitchell County, is eight miles from the top of Roan, and the last...
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