 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head...  Essays Aesthetical - Page 76by George Henry Calvert - 1875 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...first lights on him holla the other. Exeunt 3.2 [Storm siill.] Enter LEAR and FOOL LEAR Blow wind, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched the steeples, drowned the cocks! You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad! 51 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow. You...have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks. You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pages
...churches will get wet, and many chickens and cockerels will drown. But he does not. What he says is: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You...cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched the steeples, drowned the cocks! (III.ii.1-3) Say that aloud as if you are shouting at the storm (with... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - 2013 - 148 pages
...metaphors, he paints an image of rain, wind, thunder, and lightning that provide the setting for the storm. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, (drown'd) the cocks! You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers... | |
 | John O'Meara - 1996 - 134 pages
...suggestions of vitality springing from the very terms of tragic protest and tragic destruction' 37 : Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, [drown'd] the cocks! You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt couriers... | |
 | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Vera Gottlieb - 1996 - 62 pages
...black sky, rain, thunder — br br br... lightning — dz dz dz slashes the whole sky, and he says: Blow, winds and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout 23 Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,... | |
 | Bob Carlton - 1998 - 76 pages
...scene should be that PROSPERO is alone and that MIRANDA and TEMPEST are merel\ images in his mind.) Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You...have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires, Strike flat and thick rotundity of this world! Crack nature's... | |
 | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - 1999 - 108 pages
...heath, the storm, the rain, thunder and lightning ... Vroooom! Pssssssh! The heavens open, then comes: "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You...have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! You sulfrous and thought-executing fires, vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, singe my white head!... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 10321 KingLear he dairy. 5246 Epicene Give me a look, give me a face....simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: 10322 KingLear There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. 10323 KingLear The art... | |
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - 1998 - 100 pages
...not-so-subtle connotation of the act of procreation in the references to spouting fluid, steeples and cocks: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, [drown'd] the cocks! (Ill, ii, 1-3) This is underlined in the subsequent allusion... | |
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