 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 pages
...terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross-lightning ? To watch poor Perdu ! With this thin helm ? My very enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood...forlorn, In short and musty straw ? alack ! alack ! 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits, at Once, Had not concluded. Ah ! he wakes ; speak Phys. Madam,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 pages
...terrible and nimble stroke Of auick, cross lightning? to watch (poor perdu!) With this thin helm? Mme enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood...swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw ? Atack, alack ! "i'is wonder, that thy life and wits at once Had not conclnded all. — He wakes ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...passages in illustration ; the first two being from King Lear, the third from Antony and Cleopatra • " Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have...swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw ? " "We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage : When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...thunder? In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick cross lightning? to watch (poor perdu!) Within this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog Though he had bit...forlorn, In short and musty straw ? Alack ! alack ! "Hi wonder that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all. Scent between Lear and Cordelia.... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...these whites flakes Did challenge pity of them. Was this face To be expos'd against the warring winds? Mine enemy's dog, though he had bit me, should Have...rogues forlorn, in short and musty straw ! Alack, 'tis wonder that thy life and wits At once had not concluded all. He wakes ! — Speak to him. Phys.... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...thunder? In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning ? to watch (poor perdu !) With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog. Though he had...my fire : And wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel ihec with, swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw ? Alack, alack ! 'Tis wonder, that thy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 346 pages
...thunder ? In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning ?, to watch (poor perdu 9 !) With this thin helm ' ? Mine enemy's dog, Though he...forlorn, In short and musty straw ? Alack, alack! 'Tis wonder, that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all He wakes ; speak to him. Phys. Madam,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 332 pages
...circumstance of great humanity; for which kind of strokes Shakspeare is as eminent as for his poetry: My very enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood...swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw ?— Lear begins to awake; but his imagination is still distempered, and his pain exquisite; You do... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1820 - 300 pages
...little distance from the house, and set off with him in the chaise that waited for her. CHAPTER IV. And wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with...forlorn, In short and musty straw ? Alack ! alack ! Tis wonder that thy life and wits at onc« Had not concluded all. For now I stand as one upon a rock,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...dog." STEEVENS. Gloster has before expressed the same sentiment perhaps still more strongly, p. 185. Against my fire ; And wast thou fain, poor father,...rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw ? Alack, alack ! "Tis wonder, that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all '. — He wakes ; speak to him.... | |
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Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire ; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! 
