 The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...  The British Essayists: The Spectator - Page 122by Alexander Chalmers - 1802Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...man's contumely, The pang of depised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he...might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, (That... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes — When...might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death —... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 642 pages
...man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he...might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...contumely', The pangs of despised love', the law's delay' The insolence of office', and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes', When he...might his quietus make With a bare bodkin'? Who would fardels* bear', To groan and sweat under a weary life', But that the dread of something after death',... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...man's contumely, The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? How little these burdens have changed since Shakespeare's day! kueis. Imitative.... | |
 | Robin Varnum, Christina T. Gibbons - Art and literature - 2001 - 254 pages
...makes calamity of so long life, For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love,...might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, That... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 260 pages
...celebrated soliloquy and nowhere else in Shakespeare's works:1 The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes When he himself...might his quietus make With a bare bodkin; who would fardels bear. (m, i, 72-5) The dramatist seems to have recalled the tribulations of Lucius, the ass,... | |
 | Estate of Jerry J. Phillips, Stephen Chippendale - Political Science - 2001 - 146 pages
...against a sea of troubles. . . . For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, —Hamlet, Act III, Sc. 1, by William... | |
 | Janet Hill - Drama - 2002 - 266 pages
...ways all lives are difficult: For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make... | |
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