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" Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance... "
Measure for measure. Comedy of errors - Page 55
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. Whittingham's ed, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...point. I. tnh. (), I do fear thee, Claudio ; and I quake Lest thou a feverous life shonld'st entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual...pang as great As when a giant dies. Claud. Why give yon me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness? If I must die, I will...
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The Boston Spectator: Devoted to Politicks and Belles-lettres, Volume 1

United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...rrossvr joys of sense His mind seems nourish d by that abstinence." LE REVEUR, JV'o. IV. "The sting of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." THE first of these positions is undoubtedly true — the...
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The Angler's Guide: Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling ...

Thomas Frederick Salter - Fishes - 1815 - 422 pages
...in Shakspeare which I have sometimes heard repeated by the enemies of angling, will not apply here : The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. For fish are cold-blooded animals, and not susceptible of that acute sense of pain which other animals...
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Memoirs of Miss O'Neill: Containing Her Public Character, Private Life, and ...

Charles Inigo Jones - 1816 - 120 pages
...and principle is still carried farther in the scene with her brother, particularly where she says, " Dar"st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies." The satisfaction she feels at his reply is no less great and magnanimous. There spake my brother ;...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...thou a fev'rous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honor. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corp'ral sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. Reiohtlion from a Sense of Honor. Claud....
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Characters of Shakespear's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...point. Isabella. O, I do fear thee, Claudio: and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life should'st entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Claudio. Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness ;...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 22

England - 1827 - 798 pages
...nerves, makes some fancy themselves cowards, who, when called to the test, may perhaps prove heroes; for The sense of death is most in apprehension— And...poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. A profound sentence, which has been strangely perverted...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 16

England - 1824 - 770 pages
...thimbles." — A touch, by the way, quite Sliakspearean ; as, where the bard says, — " The poor hectic that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies." No doubt: but quere — how great a pang does the poor beetle find, whe* a giant dies ? Let us return....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 322 pages
...on this occasioo, "',ould eeem to comprehend coofet' tkra. communion, -t' lo *fcsohitinn. STKKVFX--. Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And thr- poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal suiferance finds a pang as great , As when a giant...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...thee, Clnudio : and I quakr. Lest thou a IVveiona life should'st entertain, Aud six or sevuu maters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou...we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang a: great As when a giant dies. Claudia. Why give yon me this shame ? Think you I can a resolution fetch...
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