 | M. C. Bradbrook - 1980 - 270 Seiten
...scene: I perceive death, now I am well awake,* Best gift is they can give or I can take . . . Pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength Must pull...upon me: Yet stay, heaven gates are not so highly arched As Princes' palaces - they that enter there Must go upon their knees, (rv. ii. 230-41) It is... | |
 | Elizabeth Howe - 1992 - 226 Seiten
...emphasised, whereas the Duchess's end, in similar circumstances, is courageous and assertive: 'pull and pull strongly, for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me'.8 The tendency of Restoration tragedy to characterise women as frail and incapable is perhaps a... | |
 | John Webster - 1997 - 186 Seiten
...breath how please you, but my body Bestow upon my women, will you? Executioners. Yes. Duchess. Pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength Must pull down heaven upon me. — 230 Yet stay: heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there... | |
 | La Monte McNeese - 2004 - 264 Seiten
...to heaven, it will be because we honored the principles within the Ten Commandments. "Heaven-gates are not so highly arch'd as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees." —John Webster (c. 1580^c. 1625) from The Duchess ofMalfi, Act IV, Scene ii CHURCH ATTENDANCE "But... | |
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Come, violent death, Serve for mandragora, to make me sleep: Go, tell my brothers, when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet. 
