 Miserable creature! If thou persist in this, 'tis damnable. Dost thou imagine, thou canst slide on blood, And not be tainted with a shameful fall ? Or, like the black and melancholic yew-tree, Dost think to root thyself in dead men's graves, And yet to...  Ranthorpe - Seite 195von George Henry Lewes - 1847 - 351 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Lamb - 1808 - 512 Seiten
...itself into the elements which it contemplates. Vow of Murder rebuked. Miserable creature, If thou persist in this 'tis damnable. Dost thou imagine thou...melancholic yew-tree, Dost think to root thyself in dead mens graves And yet to prosper ! Dying Man. See see how firmly he doth fix his eye Upon the crucifix.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 614 Seiten
...'Favenge her murther. Mon. To the duke of Florence? lad. To him I have. Mon. Miserable creature ! If thou persist in this, 'tis damnable. Do'st thou imagine,...thyself in dead men's graves, And yet to prosper? Instruction to thee Conies like sweet showers to over-harden'd ground : They wet, but pierce not deep.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1813 - 502 Seiten
...itself into •lie elements which it contemplates. Vow of Murder rebuked. Miserable creature, If thou persist in this 'tis damnable. Dost thou imagine thou...melancholic yew-tree, Dost think to root thyself in dead mens graves And yet to prosper ! Dying Man. See see how firmly he doth fix his eye Upon the crucifix.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1815 - 330 Seiten
...dead.— XVII. p. 169. Borrowed from an old play by John Webster ; Like the black and melancholick yew-tree, Dost think to root thyself in dead men's graves, And yet to prosper ? The White Devil, or Vittoria Coromlona. Never shall her waking eye Behold them, till the hour of... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1827 - 524 Seiten
...Miserable creature ! If thou persist in this, 'tis damnable. Do'st thou imagine thou canst slide in blood, And not be tainted with a shameful fall ? Or,...root thyself in dead men's graves And yet to prosper ? THE WHITE DEVIL. BARANGA. IT has been well said, that if there be no marriages made up in Heaven,... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 398 Seiten
...T'avenge her murder. MONT. To the duke of Florence? LOD. To him I have. MONT. Miserable creature ! If thou persist in this, 'tis damnable. Dost thou imagine,...tainted with a shameful fall ? Or, like the black and melancholick yew-tree, Dost think to root thyself in dead men's graves, And yet to prosper ? Instruction... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 384 Seiten
...horsemanship. MONT. To the duke of Florence? LOD. To him I have. MONT. Miserable creature ! If tliou persist in this, 'tis damnable. Dost thou imagine,...tainted with a shameful fall ? Or, like the black and melancholick yew-tree, Dost think to root thyself in dead men's graves, And yet to prosper? Instruction... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 802 Seiten
...corse, Whilst horror waits on princes' — — — Vow of Murder rebuked. Miserable creature, If thou persist in this 'tis damnable. Dost thou imagine thou...root thyself in dead men's graves And yet to prosper ! Dying Man. See see how firmly he doth fix his eye Upon the crucifix. Oh hold it constant. It settles... | |
 | 1836 - 352 Seiten
...THE WATER TOWER. BY HORACE GUILFORD. (For the Parterre ). Monteceleo.— Miserable creature! If thou persist in this, 'tis damnable ; Dost thou imagine...thou canst slide on blood, And not be tainted with a shamet'ol fall ? Or Hire the black and melancholick yew-tree, Dost thiuk to root thyself in dead men's... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 520 Seiten
...grave its baleful roots, And prospers on the dead. — XVII. p. 129. Lihe the black and melancholick yew-tree, Dost think to root thyself in dead men's graves, And yet to prosper 9 WEBSTER'S White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona. Never shall her wakina eye Behold them, till the hour... | |
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