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" And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. "
Lessing's Laokoon - Page 175
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1878 - 296 pages
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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 167, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, ayers and tears have moved me, gifts could never....your hands, Kent to maintain, the King, the realm, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies,...
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Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Aesthetics - 1853 - 288 pages
...before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionably, That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them ; Why I, in...well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain ! I hear a fiend, and I see a fiend ; and in a form which a fiend alone could possess. " King Richard,...
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Laocoon: an essay on the limits of painting and poetry, tr. by E.C. Beasley

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1853 - 296 pages
...before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionably, That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them ; Why I, in...well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain ! I hear a fiend, and I see a fiend ; and in a form which a fiend alone could possess. e King Richard,...
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 476 pages
...quartos. * curtail'd of this : in fe VOL. V.— 23 Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see' my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous. By drunken prophecies,...
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Sämmtliche Schriften, Volume 6

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1854 - 532 pages
...Act. I. Se. VI. e) The Life and Death of Richard III. Act. I. Sc. I. Scfflng, fómmtf Sfficrfe. V. 31 unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on...well-spoken days, I am determined, to prove a Villain! fo Ijöre tdj einen Seufel, unb felje einen ïeufel; in einer ©eftaít, bie ber £eufel аист fyaben...
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1854 - 538 pages
...— Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see" my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions7 dangerous, By drunken prophecies,...
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G. E. Lessing's gesammelte Werke, Volume 2

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1855 - 466 pages
...halt hy them Why I (in this weak piping time of Peace) Have no delight to pass away the time; t'nless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own...well-spoken days, I am determined, to prove a Villain 1 *» bcre té einen ïeufel unb feb,e einen ¡Eeufel, in einer ©eflalt, u t« îeufel allein Çaben...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...sigh, and yield To Christian intereessors. Shaks. Merehant of Veniee. And therefore — sinee I eannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Shaks. Riehard III. Thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,...
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The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 466 pages
...them;— Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity....well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, To set my brother...
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The Lover's Seat: Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty ...

Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...with crimes ; as Richard III. feels conscious, saying, after alluding to his own personal ugliness, " And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasure of these days." Thus might we go on for ever to praise that which is most...
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