 | Lawrence Venuti - Foreign Language Study - 2000 - 542 pages
...Or softly lightens o'er her face with any of the lines addressed by Marvell "To His Coy Mistress": And you should if you please refuse, Till the conversion of the Jews Mv vegetable love should grow Jo o Vaster than empires and more slow, — four lines in which there... | |
 | Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes, David Tombs - Religion - 2001 - 506 pages
...pp. 179-88. 18. It is interesting to recall the well-known lines in Marvell's 'To his coy Mistress': 'And you should, if you please, refuse/ Till the conversion of the Jews', quoted from Marvell, Poems, p. 24. The implication here is that such an event is very far from immediate!... | |
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Lisa Muehle - 2004 - 207 pages
...quadruplets' mother has the patience of Job. Hyperbole Exaggerated language used for emphasis or comic effect. "An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and...adore each breast; But thirty thousand to the rest..." - Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Strategies for Success on the SAT 2005: Critical Reading & Writing... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...Should'st rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood; And you should if you please refuse Till the conversion...love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow. A hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze. Two hundred to adore each... | |
 | Stephen C. Manganiello - History - 2004 - 632 pages
...Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow than empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood. And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. io My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise... | |
 | Peter Hühn, Jens Kiefer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 276 pages
...praise of beauty, rejection, and lament it prescribes: 'I would / Love you ten years before the flood: / And you should, if you please, refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews' (11. 710). However, it does so under unreal conditions ('Had we but world enough, and time', 1. 1),... | |
 | John Barth - Ageing - 2005 - 308 pages
...scalp-to-sole Shakespearean sonnet sequence. . . . "Three quatrains and a couplet on the tushie alone." Two hundred to adore each breast, / But thirty thousand to the rest. No Andrew Marvell, this one, but an apparently principled fellow who encouraged her, after a couple... | |
 | Miller Williams - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 137 pages
...mistress: I would Love you ten years before the flood, WilliamsMAKING txt.indd 36 ff!4 1/18/07 9:13:15 AM And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion...adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest. . . . What would you do to these lines to make them modern? Something, but not very much. Back another... | |
 | Lisa Muehle - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 202 pages
...quadruplets' mother has the patience of Job. Hyperbole Exaggerated language used for emphasis or comic effect. "An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and...adore each breast; But thirty thousand to the rest. . ." - Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Strategies for Success on the SAT: Critical Reading & Writing... | |
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Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. 
