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" A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. "
The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art - Page 203
1842
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Caesar. Antony and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 530 pages
...hunted animal is so hard run that it foams at the mouth, it is said to be embossed. A vapor, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A towered citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...even with a thought, The rack dislimns ; and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. AC iv. 12, Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish ; A vapour, sometimes, like a bear, or lion, A tower" d citadel, a pendant rock, 50 CLOUDS,— continued. A forked mountain, or blue promontory, With...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...imbibed. * II S;.lit. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. 177 ANTONY'S REFLECTIONS ON nts FADED GLORT. Sometime, we sec a cloud that's dragonish: A vapour, sometimes, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory Wi'.h trees upon't, that nod...
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The national drawing master, on a new principle, Issue 29

W A. Nicholls - 1855 - 338 pages
...azure. In shape, clouds differ as much as in color and intensity of light and shade : — " Sometimes wo see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometimes like...forked mountain, a blue promontory, With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air." — SHAKSFEAEB. From the diversities of shape,...
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The national drawing master, on a new principle, Issue 69

W A. Nicholls - 1858 - 288 pages
...lightest azure. In shape, clouds differ as much as in color and intensity of light and shade : — " Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour...pendent rock, A forked mountain, a blue promontory, AVith trees upon 't, that nod unto the world And mock onr eyes with air." — SHAKSPEARE. From the...
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The rain-cloud and The snow-storm

Charles Tomlinson - 1865 - 428 pages
...and towers. Shakspeare seems to have referred to this modification in the well-known lines : — " Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish ; A vapour,...forked mountain, a blue promontory, With trees upon 't that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. • That which is now a horse, even with a...
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Catholic World, Volume 2

1866 - 900 pages
...pathetic pitch of Antony's speech: •- Sometime we see a clond that's dragonish ; A vapor, sometime', like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory. With trees upon't, that nod into the world, And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast...
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Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and ..., Volume 19

Sussex Archaeological Society - 1867 - 280 pages
...agency than have the piled-up clouds over the finders' heads to the animals which they resemble. " Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish ; A vapour sometimes like a bear or lion." We have all seen rocks and ' castles in the air ; ' and I am convinced that the very great majority...
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The Western Monthly, Volumes 1-2

Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 pages
...A vapour some time, like a bear, or lion ; A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain or blue promontory With trees upon i, that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air." Claude Lorraine never did finer painting ; but it becomes something higher than that when Antony, in...
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Shakspeare's tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, with illustrative and ...

William Shakespeare - 1870 - 192 pages
...behold'st me ? Eros. Ay, noble lord. Ant. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish ; 2 A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air : thou hast...
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