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 175by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1878 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
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...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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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