...undermining our powers of disbelief, 'Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant...that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra ought...

...climatological aspects involved in Cymbeline as a whole, see Zacharasiewicz: Klimatheorie, pp. 209 ff. A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain,...that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. (IV.xiv.2— 6) Antony's dying words have a counterpart in those of Cleopatra (the recurrence of the...

...profusion: Sonic-time we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue...that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. [Anthony and Cleopatra IV 14] Moreover, when such resemblances do occur, when the profile of a mountain...

...see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees...that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs, They are black vesper's pageants. Eros Ay, my lord. Ant. That which is...

...(IV, ix) 9 Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometimes like a bear or lion, A towered S upon 't that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs; They are black...

...see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime, like a bear, or lion, A towcr'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees...that nod unto the world. And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs, They are black vesper's pageants. Eros: Ay, my lord. Antony: That which...

...we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees...that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs; They are black Vesper's pageants." 7 EROS Ay, my lord. ANTONY That which...

...we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees...that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants. EROS. Ay, my lord. ANT. That which is...

...we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees...that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air ... Major poets since Shakespeare also are rich and varied sources. Donne, for example, begins "The...

...body cannot hold its visible shape: ANTONY: Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant...that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs, They are black vesper's pageants. EROS: Ay, my lord. ANTONY: That which...