From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue, (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors - Page 15by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...whom it will not, so : yet still 'tis just. Lucio. Why, how nqw, Clnudio? whence comes this restraint? e to the f nnturcs do pursue. Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink,... | |
| Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...o'er, Where storms are hush'd, and billows break no more ! REV. WALTER COLTON. SATIETY — SURFEIT. 1. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope, by the immoderate use, Turns to restraint. SHAKSPEARE. 2. They surfeited with honey ; and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little... | |
| Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...o'er, Where storms are hush'd, and billows break no more ! REV. WALTER COLTOS. SATIETY — SURFEIT. 1. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope, by the immoderate use, Turns to restraint. SHAKSPEABE. 2. They surfeited with honey ; and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. AlFs Well, *c., i. 1. Claud. As surfeiMs the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. , Meas. for Mats., i. 3. —But pain is perfect misery, the worst *Of evils, and excessive, overturns... | |
| Thomas James Serle - 1847 - 342 pages
...Heaven he was safe, and she loved him more than ever. CHAPTER VI. " Our natures do pursue, Like lats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die." Measure for Measure. IT is difficult, indeed, to rate the price at which such moments should be purchased,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1848 - 618 pages
...it will not, so ; yet still 'tis just.a Lucio. Why, how now, Claudio? Whence comes this restraint ? Claud. From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty ;...restraint : our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin 3 down their proper bane) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die. Lucio. If I could speak so wisely... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...it will not, so ; yet still 'tis just. Lucio. Why, how now, Claudio ? whence comes Uiis restraint 7 Claud. From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty :...of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Tumi to restraint : our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin1 down their proper bane,) A thirsty... | |
| William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 160 pages
...fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. Our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin down their...bane) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die. Ourselves we do not owe :* What is decreed, must be. 0 place ! 0 form ! How often dost thou with thy... | |
| William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 156 pages
...A murd'rous guilt shews not itself more soon Than love that would seem hid : love's night is noon. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. After execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom. Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - Conduct of life - 1849 - 300 pages
...most industriously to make ourselves sick, and seem to be most enamoured of our own destruction. " As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope...bane) A thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die." This allusion to intoxicating drinks leads us to the consideration of our second topic. Says Solomon,... | |
| |