 They say, miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence it is, that we make trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when •we should submit ourselves...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3531897Full view - About this book
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 pages
...CHAPTER 7 Sneak's Noise, or, Rumor and Detextualization in '2 Henry IV They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. —All's Well That Ends Well 2. 3.1-6 This philosophical observation is the old courtier Lafew's comment... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things [that are] supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear' (2.3. 1-6). Lafeu suggests that 'clever', excessively rational people try to reduce to a commonplace... | |
 | Lilian R. Furst - 1999 - 292 pages
...case. After the cure, onlookers speak wondrously of her success: LAFEW: They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and...familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit... | |
 | Peter G. Platt - 1997 - 304 pages
...reason wonder may diminish. — Shakespeare, As You Like It 5.3.138-39 They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern...familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 260 pages
...again. Exeunt severally 2.3 Enter Bertram, Lafeu, and Paroles LAFEU They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and...familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit... | |
 | Franck Lessay - 1999 - 204 pages
...Well 2.3. Shakespeare endows old Lafeu with eloquence on the subject: "They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear". In Bennett's play about King George m, England may pride itself on its age of reason, on having outgrown... | |
 | Leeds Barroll - 1999 - 308 pages
...and the namesake chapter bearing a variation on the collection's title and featuring its epigraph: "Hence it is that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear." (The quotation is from All's Well That Ends Well; I might have identified the character to whom these... | |
 | Allen Thiher - 2009 - 368 pages
...unfolding: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and famihar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence it is that...make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seemmg knowledge when we should submit onrselves to an unknown feat. 12.3l The king's illness has not... | |
 | Park Honan - 1998 - 522 pages
...have given up acting, but his writing career was over by the end of the year. A GENTLEMAN'S CHOICES We make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. (Lafeu, in All's Well That Ends Well) Why, thou owest God a death. (Prince Hal to Falstaff) We cannot... | |
 | Sheldon S. Wolin - 2001 - 664 pages
..."known" — and all of this in accordance with the laws of nature. IX They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. Shakespeare40 Because the incorporation of science into the structure of state power represented a... | |
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