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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Re: Shakespeare's gossamer verse #76255 07/22/02 05:05 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 I can think of a couple immediately – Edgar’s description of his father’s ‘fall’ from ‘Dover Cliffs’ in King Lear, and there is something in a speech by the Friar in Romeo and Juliet though I cannot bring it properly to mind (something like “gossamer that idles in the summer air”?)… Are these the ones you are referring to, or are there others? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Shakespeare's gossamer verse #76256 07/22/02 05:12 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Well, this database certainly returns only two hits, and (as you say) no pairing with wings… http://www.gh.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/test.html Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 6 FRIAR LAURENCE These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. [Enter JULIET] Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint: A lover may bestride the gossamer That idles in the wanton summer air, And yet not fall; so light is vanity. King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6 EDGAR Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air, So many fathom down precipitating, Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg: but thou dost breathe; Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound. Ten masts at each make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell: Thy life's a miracle. Speak yet again. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Shakespeare's gossamer verse #76257 07/22/02 05:24 PM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 9 N Napier's Bones stranger Napier's Bones stranger N Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 9 You're 100% right and pretty darn good to recognize them off the top of your head. Better than me. I only found them with a search engine. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Shakespeare's gossamer verse #76258 07/22/02 05:35 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Well, I'd say I know Lear extremely well, but the R&J was more by good luck than judgement! It so happened I was leafing through it recently becuase my poor kids are being tortured with it by Holofernes... ;) I must say, I thought you might well be right about gossamer wings - I believed there was some reference in a poem (other than the dramas) but! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Shakespeare's gossamer verse #76259 07/22/02 05:44 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park but then, John, maths would be your strong point, wouldn't it? i have a childrens Math book that has instructions for making set of Napier's Bones, using card stock, not ivory. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Shakespeare's gossamer verse #76260 07/22/02 05:52 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 using card stock Ivory'll one at home :p :) and who's John, hmmmmm? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter butterflies #76261 07/22/02 07:17 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk D dodyskin addict dodyskin addict D Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk who knew? they're also butterflies http://makeashorterlink.com/?N20812351 or http://www.ecofloridamag.com/archived/florida_butterflies.htm and a role playing game (not a fan myself) and a band and a picture and so many things, still can't find the first reference though Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Shakespeare's gossamer verse #76262 07/22/02 10:00 PM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 9 N Napier's Bones stranger Napier's Bones stranger N Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 9 I'd have sworn there were gossamer wings in Midsummer Night's Dream. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Shakespeare's gossamer verse #76263 07/22/02 11:05 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Mav, John Napier, mathmatician = Napier's Bones.. (could be Napier ghost or spirit..) but most definately = John, wouldn't you think? In anycase, he is now.. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: gossamer thread #76264 07/22/02 11:09 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Anyone remember the Gossamer Albatross? wasn't that the human powered plane that attemped to cross the english channel? made of carbon fiber and saran wrap as i recall? and power by a very strong cyclist! my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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