| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...This heavy-headed-revel, east and west, Makes us traduced, and tax'd of other nations : They clepe J us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our addition...cannot choose his origin) By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,2 Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ; Or by some habit, that too much o'erleavens... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...observance. This heavy-headed revel , east and west Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations : They clepe us drunkards , and with swinish phrase Soil...guilty , Since nature cannot choose his origin) By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ; Or by some habit... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...swinish pbn* Soil our addition ; and, indeed, it takes From our achievements, though perform'd at birJ. 0 no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests,...wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his heigh guiltv, Since nature cannot choose his origin, By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1845 - 690 pages
...They gloat over such passages as the following, with the same rapture as over Bacon's Essays: — ' So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some...guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, ) By their o'er-growth of some complexion Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...observance. This heavy-headed revel, east and west, Makes us traduced and tai'd of other nations ; They 'er a soldier's neck, And then he dreams of cutting...two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ; Or by.some habit, that too much o'erleavene The form... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 pages
...wassel,] ie devotes the night to jollity. 8 the swaggering up-spring — ] The blustering upstart. Soil our addition ; and, indeed, it takes From our...his origin,) By the o'ergrowth of some complexion ', Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ; Or by some habit, that too much o'er-lcavens The... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...swinish phrase Soil our addition ; and, indeed, it takes From our achievements, though perform'd &t taken from a chert of sweets To swaddle infants, whose young breath Scarce Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ; Or by some habit, that too much o'erleavens The form... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...observance. This heavy-headed revel, east and west Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations : They alone, Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber...distilled liquor drink thou nil1; When, presently, m them, As, in their birth, (wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin,) By... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...this take the following specimen: They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our ambition; and, indeed it takes From our achievements, though...our attribute. So, oft it chances in particular men, As, in their birth, (wherein they are not guilty, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, Since... | |
| William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 574 pages
...by him to be dependent upon nature and circumstance?, not upon the appointments of Providence : — So oft it chances in particular men, That for some...his origin), By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ; Or by some habit, that too much o'erlcavens The form... | |
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