 | Alexander Leggatt - 2005 - 296 页
...the play two main ways of seeing time. One is the Jaques-Touchstone view of inevitable decay: And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from...to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. (n. vn. 26-8) Jaques's set piece on the seven ages of man is essentially an elaboration of this view.... | |
 | G. M. Pinciss - 2005 - 214 页
...Rosalind warns Orlando that in matters of romance, "Say a day, without the ever." Touchstone remarks how "from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,/ And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot." And Jaques finds life to end in "mere oblivion . . . sans everything." In Twelfth Night, Feste reminds... | |
 | John Russell Brown - 2005 - 264 页
...regularly : 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot. . . . (II. vii. 24-7) Determined to treat a spade only as a spade, Touchstone will not be carried away... | |
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Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. 
