 | Anthony Trollope - 1995 - 808 Seiten
...the time-honoured tragic pattern, stated for example at the end of Marlowe's play Edward II : Base Fortune, now I see, that in thy wheel There is a point...to which when men aspire They tumble headlong down . . . Melmotte's very public prostration in the House of Commons (p. 637), quickly followed by his... | |
 | Christoph E. Schweitzer - 1998 - 312 Seiten
...Edward III, and he is about to be led off to a traitor's execution, he reflects on his own hubris: Base Fortune, now I see that in thy wheel There is a point to which, when men aspire, They rumble headlong down. That point I touched, And, seeing there was no place to mount up h1gher, Why... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1998 - 550 Seiten
...sue for life unto a paltry boy. EDWARD in Hence with the traitor, with the murderer! MORTIMER Base Fortune, now I see that in thy wheel There is a point to which when men aspire 60 They tumble headlong down. That point I touched, And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher,... | |
 | Ian McAdam - 1999 - 300 Seiten
...the most significant of such contrasts. Mortimer ends his career with the following farewell: Base Fortune, now I see that in thy wheel There is a point...men aspire, They tumble headlong down. That point I touched, And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall?... | |
 | Ellis Hanson - 1999 - 380 Seiten
...remark as he confronts the prospect of his imminent end for the part he played in that crime: Base Fortune, now I see that in thy wheel There is a point,...which when men aspire, They tumble headlong down. (Edward II V.vi. 59-61) DA Miller VISUAL PLEASURE IN 1959 "Got a match?" "Your face and my ass" —... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 2000 - 564 Seiten
...sue for life unto a paltry boy. EDWARD in Hence with the traitor, with the murderer! MORTIMER Base Fortune, now I see, that in thy wheel There is a point,...traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown. EDWARD in What, suffer you the traitor to delay? [exit the younger Mortimer with First Lord and some... | |
 | 2000 - 182 Seiten
...Edward III, and he is about to be led off to a traitor's execution, he reflects on his own hubris: Base Fortune, now I see that in thy wheel There is a point...men aspire, They tumble headlong down. That point I touched, And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall?... | |
 | Gisèle Venet - 2002 - 350 Seiten
...Spencer, therefore live we all. / Spencer, all live to die, and rise to fall» ; et V, VI, 59-63 : «Base fortune, now I see that in thy wheel / There is a...aspire / They tumble headlong down ; that point I touched / And seeing there was no place to mount up higher / Why should 1 grieve at my declining fall... | |
 | Constance Brown Kuriyama - 2002 - 298 Seiten
...Deptford Killer," Times Literary Supplement, 28 May 1993, 30. " Bakeless, Tragicall History, 1:171. Base Fortune, now I see that in thy wheel There is a point...which, when men aspire, They tumble headlong down. Edward II, 5.6.58-60 ALTHOUGH MARLOWE'S ACQUAINTANCE with Ingram Frizer would soon put an abrupt end... | |
 | John Pitcher - 2001 - 332 Seiten
...heights of pride and ambition then, inevitably, decline and fall, as Mortimer finally recognizes; Base Fortune, now I see that in thy wheel There is a point...which, when men aspire, They tumble headlong down. (5.6.58-60) The story of Mortimer's tragic fall had been included in the volume mentioned above, which... | |
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And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall? — Farewell, fair queen; weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown. 
