Ay, truly ; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness : this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. The Twentieth Century - Página 5281877Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Anthony J. Lewis - 1992 - 258 páginas
...that beauty and virtue reside in the same house. The comedies leave for Hamlet the assumption that "the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness" (III. i. 110-13). This... | |
| Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 páginas
...discourse to your beauty. OPH: Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty? HAM: Ay, truly. For the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox,... | |
| J. Leeds Barroll - 1995 - 304 páginas
...heterosexual coupling (the telos of bodily "beauty") than he can avoid his own originary embodiment: "The power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness" (3.1.111-14). Beauty belies... | |
| 1996 - 264 páginas
...lord, have better commerce than with honesty? He replies fiercely and with a heart-rending disillusion. HAMLET Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox,... | |
| Patricia A. Parker - 1996 - 408 páginas
...Hamlet's warning to Ophelia in Act III: "your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty. . . . the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness" (i. 106-7, 110-13), lines... | |
| David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda - 1997 - 404 páginas
...language that likewise serves to discredit translations which display fidelity to beauty over honesty: "Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness" (3.1.111-114). WORKS CITED... | |
| Michael A. Morrison - 1997 - 418 páginas
...again offers the beads. Hamlet laughs ruefully: "Ha, ha! are you honest? . . . Are you fair? . . . the power of beauty will sooner/ transform honesty from what it is to a bawd (Ophelia draws back, shocked). . . . (his voice trembles to a sob) I did love [/] you [/]... | |
| Francis Fergusson - 276 páginas
...fascinated with it, but they have made it over in their own image: as Hamlet himself tells Ophelia, "the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a para73... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1999 - 324 páginas
...flying' (Screenplay, p. 79). OPIIELIA Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty? no HAMLET Ay truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd, than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox,... | |
| Jean Battlo - 1999 - 76 páginas
...lost Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. SAM. (As HAMLET:) Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a... | |
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