...rarement Shakspeare, et l'un des passages auxquels il faisait l'honneur de les répéter était celui-ci : Her voice was ever soft Gentle and low; — an excellent thing in woman1. Encore fallait-il que le débit fût juste, et une belle dame, à la foix riche et timbrée,...

...under-educated one, as may be partially exemplified in the cases of Miss Jones and the late visiters. 110 " Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman." SHAKSPERE. "The world is the book of women; whatever knowledge they possess is more commonly acquired...

...all." One of the few passages of Shakspeare which he heard or repeated with complacency was : — " Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in woman." Natural sweetness of tone did not satisfy him either in reading or singing. One of his female acquaintance,...

...all." One of the few passages of Shakspeare which he heard or repeated with complacency was : — " Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman." Natural sweetness of tone did not satisfy him either in reading or singing. One of his female acquaintancc,...

...now, she's gone for ever. — Cordelia, Cordelia ! stay a little. Ha ! What is't thou say'st ? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low — an excellent thing in woman. — I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. Off. 'Tis true, my lords, he did. Lear. Did I not,...

...of the births that may be yours. Arthur Rimbaud, 1870, Voyelles (trans.) 18:26 [Lear, of Cordelia] Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. William Shakespeare, 1605-6, King Lear, V. ill. 247 18:27 [Panthea, of Prometheus] I could hear / His...

...large sign in the gymnasium with the following quotation from King Lear, which served as her motto: "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low; an Excellent thing in woman." 57 Trilling came to Wisconsin from the University of Chicago Teachers College, where she had served...

...saved her; now she's gone forever. Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha? 270 What is't thou sayest? - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in women. I killed the slave that was a-hanging thee. CAPTAIN 'Tis true, my lords, he did. 261 stone mirror...

...her; now she's gone for ever. — Cordelia, Cordelia: stay a little. Ha? What is't thou sayst? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in women. — I killed the slave that was a-hanging thee . 270 [SECOND] CAPTAIN 'Tis true, my lords, he...

...as in singing. Shakespeare summarises the prevailing ideal in his description of Princess Cordelia: 'Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman'.22 Giovanni de' Bardi, a member of one of the famous Florentine Camerate in the 1570s and 1580s,...