 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...  Calendar - Page 343by University of St. Andrews - 1904Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pages
...prepar'd to die. Duke. 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 keep3: a breath thou art, (Servile to all the skiey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...morning, Paterson had no sooner spoken these words, " • Keason thus with life : If I do lose thee, 1 do lose a thing That none but fools would keep; a breath thou art;" than he dropped into Mr. Moody's arms, and died instantly. He was interred at Bury St. Edmunds, and... | |
 | Michael Kelly, Theodore Edward Hook - Singers - 1826 - 418 pages
...dropped down dead, after repeating these words : — . " Reason thus with life — If I do lose thee, I lose a thing that none but fools would keep; — a breath thou Art." Alas ! poor Palmer ! his fate was a lamentable one ; he had been continually involved in difficulties,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1826 - 996 pages
...ttal none but fools would keep : a breath tliou art, (Sirrile to ail the skiey influences,) TSiat dcst a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster ma ; Fcr him thou labour's! by thy flight to shun, Aad wt run'st toward him still : Thou art not noble... | |
 | Michael Kelly - 1826 - 832 pages
...dropped down dead, after repeating these words : — " Reason thus with life — If I do lose thee, I lose a thing that none but fools would keep ; — a breath thou ait." Alas ! poor Palmer ! his fate was a lamentable one ; he had been continually involved in difficulties,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...III. HOPE. The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. . REFLECTIONS ON THJ3 VANITY OF LIFE. Reason thus with life, — If I do lose thee, I do...thing That none but fools would keep; a breath thou artj (Servile to all the skiey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, ; Hourly... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...hand in these events, To whose high will we bound our calm contents. SHAKSPEARL. CHAP. XXI. LIFE. — REASON thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would reck : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That do this habitation, where thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...That none but fools would keep; a breath thou art, (Servile to. all the skiey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun, And yet run'st toward him still: Thou art not noble; For all the accommodations... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 pages
...life8' ahsoluti; for deatli; either death or Shall therehy he the sweeter. Reason thus with liie, — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none hut fools would keep: a hreath thou (Servile to all the skiey influences), That dost this hahitation,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...minds to atheism* but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.—Lord Bacon. DCCCLXXVH. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do...That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, (Servile to all the skiey influences,) Hourly afflict:... | |
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