 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 páginas
...her. O curse of marriage ! That we can call these delicate creatures ours , And not their appetites. I had rather be a toad , And live upon the vapour...Than keep a corner in the thing I love , For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones; Prerogativ'd are they less than the base ; 'T is destiny... | |
 | 1844 - 598 páginas
...wayworn too, dare this grateful solitude to woo. FJG TALES OF A TOURIST. THE CONTRABANUISTA. Oth. I bad rather be a toad , And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,...Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For others' use. OTHELIO. DAY was about to appear ; its first faint blush already tipped, as with a line of light,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 páginas
...delicate creatures ours. And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapor of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses : yet 'tis the plague of great ones ; Prerogatived are they less than the base : 'Tis destiny... | |
 | 1844 - 444 páginas
...Richard III. Act i. Scene ii. While we appreciate the poetic beauty of the language used by Othello,— " I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapour of a dungeon," Act iii. Scene ii. we may perhaps be justified in supposing that the food of the creature was then... | |
 | 1844 - 276 páginas
...delicate creatures ours, And not their ;ip|i2tiles ! I'd rather be a toad And live upon the vapom'of a dungeon. Than keep a corner in the thing I love ' For others' nse." OTHELLO. THE Marina was crowded with company, and the most distinguished of the Palermitan nobility... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 páginas
...her. О curse of marriage ! That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites. t then. Met. Caius Lignrius doth bear Caesar hard,...for speaking well of Pompey ; I wonder none of yo uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones , Prerogativ'd are they less than the base ; 'Tis destiny... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 páginas
...delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapor of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great ones ; Prerogatived are they less than the base; 'Tis destiny unshunnable,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Philip Edwards - 1977 - 140 páginas
...'goat' (ra, iii, 180). "Goats and monkeys!" he exclaims in a fit of jealousy (rv, i, 264).* He says he "had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapour of a dungeon" than be cuckolded (ra, iii, 270). He compares Desdemona to "a cistern for foul toads to knot and gender... | |
 | Jane Adamson - 1980 - 316 páginas
...her. O, curse of marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapour of...Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great ones . . . (HI, iii, 255-70) On any count, this is very ugly indeed.... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 244 páginas
...imagined as a reptilian mating pond. The toad-pool grows out ofthat earlier monstrous image of usurpation, I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapour of...Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. (3.3.267-70) Desdemona is for him not merely the precious 'thing', the stolen treasure of love's... | |
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O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others 
