 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...Jefferson Davis, and Alexander Stephens Survey the Crisis Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...hideous dream. The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 248 pages
...Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acring of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interini is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream : The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...fact, that other product of humanistic learning, Hamlet: 'Between the acting of a dreadful thing | And the first motion, all the interim is | Like a phantasma or a hideous dream' (2.1.63-5). Ascham grounds his vision of ideal masculinity in classical antiquity, specifically in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...again.' He thus forcibly describes a conceived intention: 'Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...hideous dream: The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom suffers then The nature of an insurrection.'... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...any mark of favour. BRUTUS Let 'em enter. (Exit Lucius.) Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...hideous dream. The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council, and the state of a man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...mischievous, /And kill him in the shell. [II.i.i0-34] 4. Bru. Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And the first motion, all the interim is / Like a phantasma,...dream: / The genius and the mortal instruments / Are then in conncil; and the state of man, / Like to a little kingdom, suffers then /The nature of an insnrrection.... | |
 | William Godwin - Fiction - 2000 - 550 pages
...day following. In the interval Withers had many qualms. "Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream."2 He felt the sort of arrogance which was implied, in the seating himself in the chair of honour,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...Cassius first did whet me against Cassar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And ies and dreams; And from the cross-row plucks the letter then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...so pure an ideal as liberty, endures a severe conflict: Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...hideous dream. The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2002 - 436 pages
...Cassius first did whet me against Caesar I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...hideous dream. The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in counsel, and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.... | |
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Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature... 
