 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 Seiten
...miserable have no other medicine^ But only hope : 1 have hope to live, and am prepared to die. Duke. Be absolute for death ; either death or life Shall...thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : 1 a breath thou art, (Servile to all the skyey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 656 Seiten
...miserable have no other medicine, But only hope : I have hope to live, and am prepared to die. Duke. Be absolute for death ; either death or life Shall...thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : 1 a breath thou art, (Servile to all the skyey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 2004 - 264 Seiten
...unfortunately too long to quote in full - at the beginning of the third act of Measure for Measure. Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall...I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. The speech is a formal 'persuasion' -'Reason thus with life'- and TW Baldwin points out that Shakespeare... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 Seiten
...like the preachers before him, must first evoke in Claudio a sense of the frustrations of life: Duke: Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose...would keep. A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict. . , . Thou art not certain,... | |
 | Frank McLynn - 1989 - 434 Seiten
...highwayman's wife, like a soldier's, hath as little of his pay as of his company. John Gay, The Beggar's Opera Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: 1f 1 do lose thee, l do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art William Shakespeare,... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - 1993 - 294 Seiten
...this Vienna, which makes death or life thereby the sweeter. Claudio must reason thus with life: If1 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 where thou keepst Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art death's... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 Seiten
...Duke's pronouncements. He lapses into the first person as he tells Claudio to "reason thus with life":83 "If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing / That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art, / ... Merely, thou art Death's fool" (MM 3.1.7-11; italics added).84 Hamlet finds relief from such... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 Seiten
...nature, Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid When men were fond, I smiled and wondered how. 74 Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall...would keep; a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict; merely, thou art death's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 148 Seiten
...Claudio tells the 'Friar-Duke' that he is prepared to die, while hoping for life. The Friar-Duke replies: Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall...thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If I do lost thee, I do lost a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 Seiten
...arms gave him a right to plunder him at pleasure. (12)... [On Measure for Measure, 3.1.6ff. DUKE. — Reason thus with life; If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep:] Dr. Warburton, in order I presume to lay hold of an occasion for altering the text, excepts against... | |
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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. 
