...the dance of the nymphs is over: " You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd ; be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These...The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial...

...on," as in " Tempest," in which, after the end has been reached the parties soliloquizing say : " Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial...

...INSTABILITY OP HUMAN THINGS. ' Prospero. You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismay'd : be cheerful, sir ; Our revels now are ended. These,...The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it ' inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like this...

...running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. (A« you liko it II, 1.) TRANSITORY GLORIES. books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner...madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this...

...(London: 1903), i. 260 f.) into air, into thin air: Frazer is half-quoting The Tempest IV. iv. 149-59: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial...

...easily ranking among his finest - as a form of swan-song. At the end of the masque Prospero intones: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial...

...Textpassage: BEISPIEL 3: William Shakespeare: The Tempest. Akt IV, Szene l, Z. 148-158 Prospero. OUT revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemne temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this...

...with anger so distemper'd. PROSPERO. You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These...The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial...

...Caliban we enslave ourselves. Only when we free Caliban will we free ourselves. Afterword PROSPERO: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all who it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial...

...were nothing but his spirits in disguise. Now he must think how to deal with Caliban. Life is a play Be cheerful, sir: Our revels now are ended. These...The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial...