 Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace...  Laocoon; Or The Limits of Poetry and Painting - Page 243by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1836 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 324 pages
...time ; -And descant on mine own deformity ; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, 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.* Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,6 By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | Arthur Spenser - 1819 - 670 pages
...changed from love to revenge, determined to find a gratification of hatred, if not of love. CHAPTER VI. •Since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain -Oh, my love ! my wife ! Death that hath suck'd the honey from thy lips Hath had no power yet upon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...piping time of peace, Hive no delight to pass away the time ; tnless to spy iny shadow in the sun, ind descant on mine own deformity ; And therefore, —...a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — lam determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid,... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...staid than thine to thee. Match loth, 1820. JR P, DEFORMITY. ' Deformity deformed,— unfinished : And therefore ; — since I cannot prove a lover To entertain these fair well-spoken days ;— 1 am determined to prove a villain.' EVERT rational being ought to be a philosopher. Every philosopher... | |
 | English literature - 1839 - 608 pages
...with a soliloquy, in which, as in the former play,f he descants upon his personal deformities : — " And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, 1 am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days." And he avows his underhand... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 542 pages
...shadow in the son, And descant on mine own deformity ; And therefore,— since I cannot prove a luver, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate,the idle pleasures of these days. Plots ..have I laid, inductious* dangerous, By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 636 pages
...before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them; Why I, in...well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. 9 barbed tteetLi,] ie steeds caparisoned in a warlike manner.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 442 pages
...made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them ; — Why I, m this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to...well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductionsi dangerous, By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 320 pages
...time ; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant ou mine own deformity ; 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.* Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous," By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 358 pages
...breathing world, scarce half made up, • Dances. •}- Armed. And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them ; — Why...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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