 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 610 pages
...miserable have no other medicine, But only hope : I have hope to live, and am prepared to die. Duke. Be absolute for death ; either death or life Shall...would keep : ' a breath thou art, (Servile to all the skyey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,2 Hourly afflict : merely, thou art... | |
 | John Mills - 1844 - 272 pages
...briefly replied Mr Fulton. CHAPTER VII. " Hi.won thus with life, — If I fin lose Ihec, I do lout1 a thing That none but fools would keep ; a breath thou art, i SI.M ill to all tin. skyey influence*), That dost this habitation, whero thou kccps't, Hourly afflict... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...like the preachers before him, must first evoke in Claudio a sense of the frustrations of life: Duke: Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose...would keep. A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict. . , . Thou art not certain,... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Drama - 1988 - 226 pages
...acceptance of his situation—"I have hope to live, and am prepar'd to die"—Duke Vincentio replies, "Be absolute for death: either death or life / Shall thereby be the sweeter" (3.1.4-6). Here the duke would appear to be molding Claudio's emotions into philosophical detachment,... | |
 | Frank McLynn - History - 1989 - 434 pages
...highwayman's wife, like a soldier's, hath as little of his pay as of his company. John Gay, The Beggar's Opera Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: 1f 1 do lose thee, l do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art William Shakespeare,... | |
 | Derek Humphry - Family & Relationships - 1992 - 196 pages
...died before she became totally dependent on others — something she couldn't bear." 33 CHAPTER THREE Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Alan Thomas was a comfortably-of f building contractor in California. He had... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - Education - 1993 - 294 pages
...this Vienna, which makes death or life thereby the sweeter. Claudio must reason thus with life: If1 do lose thee I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keepst Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art death's... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...Duke's pronouncements. He lapses into the first person as he tells Claudio to "reason thus with life":83 "If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing / That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art, / ... Merely, thou art Death's fool" (MM 3.1.7-11; italics added).84 Hamlet finds relief from such... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...nature, Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid When men were fond, I smiled and wondered how. 74 Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall...would keep; a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict; merely, thou art death's... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...arms gave him a right to plunder him at pleasure. (12)... [On Measure for Measure, 3.1.6ff. DUKE. — Reason thus with life; If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep:] Dr. Warburton, in order I presume to lay hold of an occasion for altering the text, excepts against... | |
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Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation,... 
