Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore... Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's sämmtliche Schriften - Page 493by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1854Full view - About this book
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - German literature - 1766 - 534 pages
...wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, 10 ' For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag...When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous and my shape as true As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us 15 With base? with baseness?... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...is some Jive years old. The same expression, as Theobald has remarked, is found in King Lear .' *' For that I am, some twelve or fourteen moonshines, " Lag of a brother.*' MA LONE. The second folio reads, sonnesfve. REED. 175. And I had rather glib myself, &c.] Glihis at... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1800 - 396 pages
...My services are bound: Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity13 of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve...When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base? with baseness?... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Aesthetics - 1802 - 410 pages
...que sont voués mes services. For that I am some twelve, or fourteen moon-sliines Lag of a brothcr? why bastard? wherefore base ? When my dimensions are...well compact , My mind as gen'rous, and my shape as truc As honest madam's issue ? why brand they thus With base ? with baseness? bastardy , base? base... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 488 pages
...My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague7 of custom; and permit The curiosity8 of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve...When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base? with baseness... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve...When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness?... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 496 pages
...My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom;9 and permit The curiosity of nations ' to deprive me,* For that I am some twelve...When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base? with baseness... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 490 pages
...Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ;9 and permit The curiosity of nations ' to deprive me,2 For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines...When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base ? with baseness... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...My services are bound: Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom; and permit The curiosity 13 of nations to deprive me, For that I am Some twelve...When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base? with baseness?... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 562 pages
...are bound : Л\ herefore should' I 3® Stand in the plague* of custom ; and permit The curiosity ' of nations to '"deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines [Ьзч ? I-ag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefoR' When my dimensions are as- well compact, My mind... | |
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