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" I'll read you matter deep and dangerous ; As full of peril and adventurous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. "
The history of the caliph Vathek, by W. Beckford [tr. by S. Henley]. Also ... - Page 201
by William Beckford - 1883
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 632 pages
...quick-conceiving discontents I'll read you matter deep and dangerous; As full of peril, and advent'rous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. Hot. If he fall in, good night:—or sink or swim:— Send danger from the east unto the west, So honour...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...discontents I'll read you matter deep and dangerous ; As full of peril, and advent'rous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. Hot. If he fall in, good night : — or sink or swim : Send danger from the east unto the west, So...
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King Henry the Fourth: A Historical Play, Parts 1-2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 154 pages
...discontents I '11 read you matter deep and dangerous ; As full of peril, and advent'rous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. Hot. If he fall in, good night : — or sink, or swim:— Send danger from the east unto the west,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 480 pages
...quick-conceiving discontents I'll read you matter deep and dangerous; As full of peril, and advent'rous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. Hot. If he fall in, good night: — or sink or swim : — Send danger from the east unto the west,...
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The Plays of Philip Massinger ...

Philip Massinger - 1805 - 540 pages
...IV. sc. iii. \ I'll read you matter deep and dangerous ; As full of peril, and advent'rous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. Henry IF. Part I. Act I. sc. iii. It cannot be denied that Massinger has improved on his original :...
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Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ..., Issue 1

E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 pages
...contemptuous contempt. The sense, I believe, is contempt that is repelled with equal contempt or disdain. " To o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, " On the unsteadfast footing of a spear'' This is a strange image of an action that does not appear to have been ever practised, or to be practicable....
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 488 pages
...quick-conceiving discontents I'll read you matter deep and dangerous; As full of peril, and advent'rous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. Hot. If he fall in, good night: — or sink or swim : — Send danger from the east unto the west,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 502 pages
...discontents I'll read you matter deep and dangerous; As full of peril, and advent' rous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear11. Hot. If he fall in, good night : — or sink or swim : — Send danger from the east unto...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...discontents I '11 read you matter deep and dangerous; As full of peril, and advent'rous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.7 Hot. If he fall in, good night: — or sink or swim:* Send danger from the east unto the west,...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 390 pages
...tofallin, than to get o'er:] So, inKing Henry IV, Part I: " As full of peril and adventurous spirit, " As to o'erwalk a current roaring loud, " On the unsteadfast footing of a spear." Malone. 2 Tou were advis'd, hisfesh was capable — ] ie you knew. So, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona...
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