 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1850 - 398 pages
...brought before us at once : — This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green sward ; nothing she does or seems, But smacks of something greater than herself; Too noble for this place. Her natural loftiness of spirit breaks out where she is menaced and reviled by the King, as one whom... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 357 pages
...but the noble blood still manifests itself in mind and manner. As Polixenes must admit of Perdita, "nothing she does or seems / But smacks of something...greater than herself, / Too noble for this place" (IV.iv.l5759). Thus the marvelous tale provides another circumstance similar to Verstellung and Verklcidung.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 164 pages
...Perdita has been brought up as a shepherd's daughter, her royal blood still shows through: [NJothing she does or seems, But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place. Certainly, there's a promising glint of egalitarianism when Perdita says of Polixenes, The selfsame... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 pages
...defective nature's creatures, and says: 'What you do, / Still betters what is done'. Polixenes adds: 'nothing she does or seems / But smacks of something greater than herself (IViv. 1 35-6, 157-8). We do not need artifice, then, to make things 'better than nature bringeth forth';... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 164 pages
...Your hand, my Perdita. So turdes pair That never mean to part. PERDITA I'll swear for 'em. POLIXENES This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward. Nothing she does or seems 158 But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place. CAMILLO He tells her something... | |
 | Leon Garfield - 1995 - 328 pages
...went, hand in hand with her lad, to join in the dancing that had just begun. The strangers gazed after her. "This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever ran on the greensward!" murmured the taller of the pair, admiringly; and the other agreed. "Good sooth, she is the queen of... | |
 | Thomas Grimann - 2001 - 376 pages
...mine / Does change my disposition." 10 Vgl. WT IV.4, Z. 156-159: Pal. This is the prettiest low-bom lass that ever Ran on the green-sward: nothing she...something greater than herself, Too noble for this place. 11 Vgl. WT IV.4, Z. 160f.: „[...] good sooth, she is / The queen of curds and cream." denn nicht... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 436 pages
...So turtles pair, That never mean to part. PERDITA I'll swear for 'em. [he leads her away POLIXENES This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran...seems But smacks of something greater than herself, THE WINTER S TALE 4,4 Too noble for this place. CAMILLO He tells her something That makes her blood... | |
 | Stephen W. Smith, Travis Curtright - 2002 - 264 pages
...delighting them with her conversation. "Nothing she does, or seems," comments Polixenes, King of Bohemia, "But smacks of something greater than herself, / Too noble for this place" (4.4.157-59). On one level, of course, the lines relate to Perdita's noble birth, but on another they... | |
 | John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, William Shakespeare - 2004 - 100 pages
...Out! ... A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door. A Winter's Tale, ACT IV, SCENE IV POLIXENES. This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward. Macbeth, ACT I, SCENE III THIRD WITCH. A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come. Macbeth, ACT III, SCENE IV... | |
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This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place. 
