Not a whit: What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds ? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls ? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits ; and 'tis found They go on such... The Ancient British Drama ... - Page 533edited by - 1810 - 614 pagesFull view - About this book
| American essays - 1878 - 816 pages
...is a passage from Webster's Duchess of Malfy, — " What would it pleasure me to have my throat cot With diamonds ? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls? I know death hath ten thousand sereral doors For men to take their exits," — which might... | |
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...This cord should terrify you? Duchess. Not a whit. What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut 215 With diamonds? Or to be smothered With cassia? Or to be shot to death with pearls? I know death hath ten thousand several doors "H 4.1 Here the traditional conclusion of an epithalamium... | |
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...: This cord should, terrify you. Duch. Not a whit : What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds ? or to be smothered With cassia ? or to be shot to death with pearls ? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits; and 'tis found They... | |
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...This cord should terrify you? DUCHESS: Not a whit: What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits (IV.ii.2 11-20) The... | |
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...you; This cord should terrify you. Duch. Not a whit: What would it plesure me to have my throat cut With diamonds? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits; and 'tis found They... | |
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