| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 страници
...of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. PLEASURE AND REVENGE. For pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. »HE SUBTILTY OF UI.YSSES, AND STCPIDITY OF AJAX. .,'/'"'' I do hate a proud man, as I hate... | |
| William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 страници
...passion of distempered blood Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong, for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves All dues be rendered to their owners : now, What nearer debt in all humanity... | |
| Albert Stratford George Canning - 1903 - 514 страници
...passion of distemper'd blood Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision." — Act II. These words and style of reasoning are from Shakespeare's own mind, and would... | |
| Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1903 - 352 страници
...and kill their forlorn Queen " ; or when Hector tells Paris, in " Troilus and Cressida," " Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision," the allusion is to Psalm lviii. 4. Buckingham's words in " King Henry the Eighth " refer... | |
| Frank F. Gibson - 1904 - 222 страници
...reptile, or, at any rate, he thought it a capital specimen for purposes of illustration : " For pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision." — " Troilus and Cressida." " What ! Art thou like the adder waxen deaf?" —"King Henry... | |
| Robert Green Ingersoll - 1905 - 172 страници
...caverns of the brain. He knew the weakness of the will, the sophistry of desire, and " That pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decitribe. 97 He knew that the soul lives in an invisible world — that flesh is but a mask, and that... | |
| John Vinycomb - 1906 - 306 страници
...art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf ? Be poisonous too." 2 King Henry VI. Act ii. sc. 2. " Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders To the voice of any true decision." Troilus and Cressida, Act ii. sc. 2. " He flies me now — nor more attends my pain Than... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 страници
...in which our pleasures relish not some puin, onr sours, ноте sweetness. — JUassinger. Pleasure N+ decision. — Shakespeare. The pursuit in which we cannot ask God's protection in nst be criminal :... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 страници
...life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, eoine sweetness. — Matniiujrr. Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision. — Shakespeare. The pursuit in which we cannot ask Clod's protection must be rrimiunl :... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1909 - 234 страници
...of distemper'd blood, Than to make up a free determination 170 'Twixt right and wrong; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves 166. "Aristotle thought"; Rowe and Pope proposed "graver sages think," to save... | |
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