 Be absolute for death; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...  Parliamentary Papers - Page 301by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1871Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 426 pages
...prepared to die. Duke. Be absolute for death ; i either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life;— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but foola would keep : a breath thou art, (Servile to all the skiey influences) That dost this habitation,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...prepar'd to die. Duke. Be absolute for death; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Iiab. Unhappy Claudio! Wretched Isabel! i ni mil....verity: The duke comes home to-morrow; — nay, 2 labour'st by thy flight to shun. And yet run'st toward him still : Thou art not noble ; For all the... | |
 | Thomas Roupell Everest - Homeopathy - 1835 - 84 pages
...vivifie. 11 parle des causes eju it *e P" ' Ies . Cabanis. Cited iy Dufresne, Bib. Ham. **fif 4I-. ** A breath thou art Servile to all the skiey influences...this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict, ai& the most glorious genius that ever adorned the world. If the causes of malady are ever to bo discovered,... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 364 pages
...absolute for death ; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Keason thus with life : It I do lose thee I do lose a thing That none but fools...breath thou art, Servile to all the skiey influences." Of all the agents which assail the body none are so widely fatal as the atmosphere. The celebrated... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 2004 - 264 pages
...act of Measure for Measure. Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life. If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. The speech is a formal 'persuasion' -'Reason thus with life'- and TW Baldwin points out that Shakespeare... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...like the preachers before him, must first evoke in Claudio a sense of the frustrations of life: Duke: Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose...would keep. A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict. . , . Thou art not certain,... | |
 | Frank McLynn - History - 1989 - 434 pages
...death: either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: 1f 1 do lose thee, l do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art William Shakespeare, Measure For Measure, H1. i,5 The scene described by Horace Walpole was repeated... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - Education - 1993 - 294 pages
...this Vienna, which makes death or life thereby the sweeter. Claudio must reason thus with life: If1 do lose thee I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keepst Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art death's... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...Duke's pronouncements. He lapses into the first person as he tells Claudio to "reason thus with life":83 "If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing / That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art, / ... Merely, thou art Death's fool" (MM 3.1.7-11; italics added).84 Hamlet finds relief from such... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...smiled and wondered how. 74 Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose...would keep; a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict; merely, thou art death's... | |
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