| Edward Deering Mansfield - Married women - 1845 - 404 pages
...the suburbs Of your good pleasure ? If it be no more, Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife. Brutus. You are my true and honorable wife ; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. Character of Portia. Portia. If tliis were true, then should I know this secret I grant, I am a woman... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...conspiracy from him, is conceived in the most heroical spirit, and the burst of tenderness in Brutus — " You are my true and honorable wife ; As dear to me...as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart,"— is justified by her whole behavior. Portia's breathless impatience to learn the event of the conspiracy,... | |
| Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1845 - 184 pages
...of the editors. The passage referred to is the well-known one — " You are my true and honourable wife ; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart." — Act ii., sc. 1. Now, what I wish to call your attention to in this passage is, that it contains,... | |
| Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - English drama - 1845 - 194 pages
...of the editors. The passage referred to is the well-known one — " You are my true and honourable wife ; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart." — Act ii., sc. 1. Now, what I wish to call your attention to in this passage is, that it contains,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...— Gray himself quotes the following line from Shakspere, as the original of this expression : — " As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart." Julius Conor. Act ii, scene 2. 5 Tissue of thy line — ie the web of fate in which are pictured as... | |
| Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...hearts. OUR OWN are hardly as intimate there, as ins are — " You are my true and honourable wife, Ax dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart," says the troubled Brutus to Portia, who has expressed a misdoubting of his true and clear affection... | |
| Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1845 - 224 pages
...would not have lent a long-life credence to that voice of honour ? " You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit this sad heart." It is the same voice that tells the moral of his life in the past words— " Countrymen,... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1907 - 508 pages
...Archiv CV, 415, n. 3. oder direkt an Shakespeares Jul. Caesar, H, l, 289: You are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. Zu Thomson. Über Thomson und Burns hat Ritter ziemlich erschöpfend gehandelt. Seinen Bemerkungen... | |
| John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...and which they so confidently proposed to fitly-prepared readers. " You are my true and honourable wife As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart." says the troubled Brutus to Portia, who has expressed a misdoubting of his true and clear affection... | |
| John Galt - Cardinals - 1846 - 478 pages
...other notices of a knowledge of its motion in different writings, Brutus says to Portia, that she was " As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart."— Julius Casar. empted from personal service, it became customary for the kings of England to solicit... | |
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