 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 402 pages
...Shakspeare, which struck both Lord Lansdowne and myself from the force and pregnancy of its meaning : — " Now whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven...thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quarter' cl, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward.* On my remarking that if ever mortal... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...time, Be but to sleep, and feed a beast, no more. Sore, he, that made us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason, To fust in us unused. Shakspeare. CCLXVIII. It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulless of the guests, which... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...his time Be but to sleep and feed, a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and God-like reason To fust in us unused." But at the same time, we must not leap to the opposite conclusion, and like certain illustrious Poets... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...time, Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 574 pages
...time, Be but to sleep and feed 7 a beast, no more. Sure, He, that made us with such large discourse Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason, To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 380 pages
...time, Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust" in us unus'd. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...time, Be but to sleep and feed ? — a beast, no more. Sure He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability...quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say, " This thing 'a to do ; " Sith I have cause, and will,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...timidusque procellaj.|| Too fatally he was, whatever his personal courage, the creature and victim of some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the...quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And, ever, three parts coward Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 734 pages
...discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven...thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - 2000 - 332 pages
...his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. (4.4.34-40) He goes on to justify Fortinbras, and take him as an example, with only the twisted syntax... | |
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What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. 
