 | John William Postgate - 1916 - 164 páginas
...potency was evidently in Caliban's mind when he called down afflictions upon Prospero and Miranda: As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen, Drop on you both. In olden times the owl probably gave rise to more superstitious awe than any other bird. Pliny speaks... | |
 | John William Postgate - 1916 - 172 páginas
...in Caliban's mind when he called down afflictions upon Prospero and Miranda: As wicked dew as e 'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen, Drop on you both. In olden times the owl probably gave rise to more superstitious awe than any other bird. Pliny speaks... | |
 | Medical Association of the State of Alabama - 1880 - 420 páginas
...level. in their low lands and rises from them to poison all who come within its influence, shedding "As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen ;' And rife " With all the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats." As proof of what... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1883 - 462 páginas
...conveying infectious diseases. Thus the monster Caliban (Tempest, i, 5) invokes on Prospero and Miranda — As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from the unwholesome fen Drop on you both I And in Marlowe's play of The Jew of Malta— The sad, presaging... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 2004 - 264 páginas
...primarily on a stylistic judgement. At his first entry he addresses Prospero and Miranda: Caliban. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both! A south-west blow on ye And blister you all o'er! Prospero. For this, be sure, to-night thou shah have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1988 - 228 páginas
...poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! [Enter Caliban] 325 Caliban As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both! A south-west blow on ye And blister you all o'er! Prospero For this, be sure, to-night thou shall have... | |
 | Philip Brockbank - 1988 - 198 páginas
...verse that he gives that character. Let us take for example what Caliban says on his first entrance: As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both. A south west blow on ye, And blister you all o'er. (1.2.321-4) This obviously is a curse. But on further... | |
 | David Miller - 1989 - 368 páginas
...destructive. Indeed, Caliban curses his masters, Prospero and Ariel, only to betray his own first affinities: "As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both!" (Act i, sc. 2, lines. 321-3) To Christians from the Middle Ages on, the swamp provided the imagery... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Simon Dunmore - 1997 - 132 páginas
...red sores.l rid destroy Act 1, Scene 2 Caliban 1 [Within] There's wood enough within. Enter Caliban As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both! A south-west blow on ye 5 And blister you all o'er! I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax... | |
 | Peter Hulme, William Howard Sherman - 2000 - 340 páginas
...pageant of the action. Editors of the The Tempest have proposed that the name of Shakespeare's witch As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both!' (I. ii. 32i-5) Corax may be compounded in her name with Greek sus, for pig or hog: she is a 'swine-raven'.... | |
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As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both! 
