 | Richard Braverman - 1993 - Страниц: 366
...addresses her, she plays the role of the cruel mistress, all the while subverting the convention: "One's cruelty is one's Power, and when one parts with one's Cruelty, one parts with one's Power" (11.385-87). Cruelty is power insofar as she wishes to be enshrined in the language of courtly love.... | |
 | Alexander Leggatt - 1998 - Страниц: 196
...She ean even keep time at hay: 'One's eruehy is one's power. and when one parts with one's eruehy, one parts with one's power. and when one has parted with that. I faney one's old and ugly' ; II.p.349). Claiming she Thus ehallenged. he goes down on his knees: 'Does... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - 2003 - Страниц: 228
...each other with each other's form. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Civssida Mrs. M1llamant: One's cruelty is one's power, and when one parts with one's...has parted with that, I fancy one's old and ugly. Mirabell: Aye, aye, suffer your cruelty to ruin the object of your power, to destroy your lover. —... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - Страниц: 592
...Mirabell. She is a most brilliant girl, who says she " loves to give pain, because cruelty is a proof of power ; and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power." Millamant is far gone in poetry, and her heart is not in her own keeping. Sir Wilful Witwould makes... | |
 | Philip George Hill - 1983 - Страниц: 330
...which is not in your nature; your true vanity is in the power of pleasing. MRS. MILLAMANT. Oh I ask you pardon for that—one's cruelty is one's power; and...has parted with that, I fancy one's old and ugly. MIRABELL. Ay, ay, suffer your cruelty to ruin the object of your power, to destroy your lover—and... | |
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Ay, ay, suffer your cruelty to ruin the object of your power, to destroy your lover— and then how vain, how lost a thing you'll be? Nay, 'tis true: you are no longer handsome when... 
