 Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation,...  Shakspeare's Measure for Measure: A Comedy - Page 30by William Shakespeare - 1803 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leon Garfield - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 328 pages
...the Duke asked gently. "The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope," came the forlorn reply. "Be absolute for death: either death or life shall thereby be the sweeter," counselled the Duke, drawing close to the bars; and, faithfully playing his part as holy comforter,... | |
 | Lesley Murdin - Psychology - 2000 - 196 pages
...N. l1993) Narcissism. A New Theory, London: Kamac. 4 STAY1NG AL1VE The patient's unilateral ending Be absolute for death. Either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. lShakespeare. Measure for Measure lll. i) 1f therapy is valuable, why do people not stay until a mutually... | |
 | 顏元叔 - Comedy - 2001 - 838 pages
...聽臨終告解的神父， 他也只有這樣勸告。 接著， 他給生命作了一段哲 學式評說: Duke.Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing...would keep. A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Thou art not thyself; For thou eXists... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Allusions - 2001 - 1166 pages
...There are six guineas for you and do not luck me aa you did my Lord Bussell." MOODT (the actor) : •' Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep." (The same la said oí Patenon, an actor in tbe Norwich Company.) MOODY (ihe tvancelitt) : " I see earth... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...(pero en contexto grandiosamente vacío): 9. Cla. I have hope to live, and am prepar'd to die. / Duke. Be absolute for death: either death or life / Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: / Ifl do lose thee, I do lose a thing / That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art, / Servile... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...mayst in honour come off again. Celia — AYLI I.ii Beware the ides of March. Soothsayer — JC I.ii Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall...would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That does this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 644 pages
...(1748), III, 86-98. Besides using the three-line motto from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (". . . Reason thus with Life; / If I do lose thee, I do lose a Thing, / That none but Fools would weep." II I, i. 6-8) that had accompanied the original printing, Cooper had RD prefix the following... | |
 | Dale F. Coye - Drama - 2002 - 364 pages
...reader and audience will probably be more comfortable with the forms given above. X / X / X / X /x/ Be absolute for death: Either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. (MM 3.1.5-6) X /X/ X/x/X/ Marry, thou dost wrong me, thou dissembler, thou — (MA 5.1.53) Other examples... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 204 pages
...of the flesh, including mortality itself. In his disguise as a friar, the Duke counsels Claudio to 'Be absolute for death: either death or life / Shall thereby be the sweeter', and he rehearses for him a litany of man's frailties: 'A breath thou art...thou art Death's fool...... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 494 pages
...nevertheless invoke a sense of a world elsewhere, as in the contrasting meditations on death by the Duke - 'Be absolute for death. Either death or life / Shall thereby be the sweeter . . .' — and then Claudio 'Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; / To lie in cold obstruction,... | |
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