 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 moon-shines Lag of a brother?  Lessing's Laokoon - Page 174by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1895 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 596 pages
...should I Stand in the plague1 of custom; and permit The curiosity4 ot nations to deprive me, For Uiat , come, and sit you dcwn , vou thai] not budge ; You go not, till I set you up a glass When mv dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As' honest madam's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...doth eat Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this. H. iii. 4. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ? KL i. 2. VILE. Though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honour'd... | |
 | Josiah Phillips Quincy - 1854 - 70 pages
...Edmund's soliloquy is removed by the correction of two blunders, that the copyist may easily have made. " Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ;...nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or thirteen moonshines Lag of a brother." " Wherefore should I Stand on the plague of custom, and permit... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Fables, German - 1854 - 530 pages
...Law My Services are bound; wherefore should I Stand in the Plage of Custom, and permit The curtesie of Nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve,...Moonshines Lag of a Brother? Why Bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as gen'rous, and my shape as true As honest Madam's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague3 of custom ; and permit The curiosity4 of nations io deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen...moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard ? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1854 - 532 pages
...should I Stand in the Plage of Custom, and permit The curtesie of Nations to deprive me, ' For that 1 am some twelve, or fourteen Moonshines Lag of a Brother? Why Bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My muid as gen'rous, and my shape as true As honest Madam's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...Earl of Gloster's Castle. Enter EDMUND, with a letter. EDM. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in...moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? Wherefore base ? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 390 pages
...Earl of Gloster'j Castle. Enter EDMUND, with a letter. Edm. 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 a of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why... | |
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