 Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance...  Measure for measure. Comedy of errors - Page 55by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - Women in literature and art - 1832 - 378 pages
...my brother's life. Let me he ignorant, and in nothing good, But graciously to know I am no hetter. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the...sufferance finds a pang as great, As when a giant dies ! "Pis not impossible But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground May seem as shy, as grave, as just,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 356 pages
...orders of animals ? " Instead, therefore of believing and being grieved by the belief, that the insect we tread upon " In corporal 'sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies," the very converse is nearer the truth. " Had a giant lost an arm or a leg," continue the authors just... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...point. Ix.ili. O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life should'st entertain, 2 90 ACT III. 91 Claud. Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness?... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...antennae, or otherwise injure him; for although it be not quite true, yet it is useful to believe, that, The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Now put him beneath a glass, and observe him narrowly, while we proceed to describe his scientific... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1831 - 406 pages
...brook. I pronounce Shakspeare to be a brother of the angle, and though I find elsewhere that ( The beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, finds a pang as great As when a giant dies,' yet I impale a fresh worm, and still believe that Shakspeare was an angler. But a favorite pursuit,... | |
 | Benjamin Homans - Military art and science - 1834 - 418 pages
...which he may stand charged; for otherwise he will prove what his judges may not recollect, that, . the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great A* when a giant dies. ARISTIDES. ron THE MILITARY AND KAVAX. MAGAZI1TC. Extract from a Midshipman's... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1908 - 1088 pages
...than a small one. In the words of one who was no mean naturalist, The poor beetle that we tread npon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. It is always the custom to describe a stag as 'the noble animal.' AB a great admirer, I regret to say... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...point. ISABELLA 0, 1 do fear thee, Claudio, and I quake Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual...die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension, 70 Though] HOWE; Through F the phrase means 'break the heart, cause 72 you consenting if you consent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Chastity - 1995 - 148 pages
...point. ISABELLA O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual...corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.65 80 CLAUDIO Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flow'ry tenderness?... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - English wit and humor - 1996 - 690 pages
...issue with Claudio, and there is a grim comedy about her argument for the insignificance of death: "The sense of death is most in apprehension. / And...sufferance finds a pang as great / As when a giant die." In short, death is death — so what's the big problem ? The audience may wince at Isabella's... | |
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