 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849
...delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapor of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For other's uses. HAMLET, HORATIO, MARCELLUS, AND BERNARDO. Horatio. Hail to your lordship. Hamlet. I am... | |
 | Mrs. Houstoun (Matilda Charlotte) - 1850
...and had not' soft parts of conversation ;' he did not quite re-echo the words of the poet— I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner of the thing I love For others but for all that his jealousy was neither less violent, nor his vengeance... | |
 | Mrs. Houstoun (Matilda Charlotte) - 1850 - 279 Seiten
...not' soft parts of conversation ;' he did not quite re-echo the words of the poet— I had rather he a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner of the thing I love For others but for all that his jealousy was neither less violent, nor his vengeance... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851
...O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For other's uses. Yet't is the plague of great ones; Prerogativ'd are they less than the base; 'T is destiny... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851
...bestow on her whom he makes bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh : " I 'd rather be a toad, And feed upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses." The true reason why polygamy was not absolutely prohibited to the Patriarchs or to the Israelites under... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851
...these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapor of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great ones , Prerogatived are they less than the base; 'Tis destiny unshunnable,... | |
 | 1851
...delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad ? And live upon the vapor of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great ones , Prerogatived are they less than the base ; 'Tis destiny unshunnable,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 345 Seiten
...O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, * A species of hawk, also a term of reproach applied to a wanton. f Straps of leather by vrYiida. fc^w... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 345 Seiten
...O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, * A species of hawk, also a term of reproach applied to 1 wanton. IL Than keep a corner in the thing... | |
 | 1856
...or War Had still preserved his Perpendicular. 3Lob0» — Shakspeare. Ir I prove her haggard, I had rather be a Toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,...Than keep a Corner in the thing I love, For others' use. e. — ShaJcspeare. 0 SHE, that hath a Heart of that fine frame, To pay this debt of Love but... | |
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I'd rather be a toad, | and live upon the vapour of a dungeon, | than keep a corner in the thing I love | for others 
