tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep ; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause : there's the respect That... Brief for Plaintiff: Bacon Vs. Shakespeare - Page 81by Edwin Reed - 1891 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1804 - 188 pages
...suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them !....To die. ...to sleep.... No...of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of tii' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 pages
...may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect 1 hat makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear...of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit ofth' unworthy take?, When he himself might his quietus make... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 350 pages
...sleep, to say, we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to; 'tis-a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. — To die —...despised love, the law's delay, •>• The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietua... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Translating and interpreting - 1813 - 466 pages
...connected reasoning, to the desultory range of thought and abrupt transitions of the original, VolDevoutly to be wish'd. To die ;— to sleep ;— To sleep !...of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus... | |
| William Dodd - Death - 1815 - 236 pages
...more : and by a sleep to say, we end The heart-ach, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to : — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd...of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th" unwary takes But that the dread of something after... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 290 pages
...rub— For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal (toil, Must give us pause There's the respect That makes...of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When Jie himself might his quietus... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 486 pages
...dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There 's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would...of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English essays - 1820 - 514 pages
...may come, When we have shuffled oft this mortal coil, Must giye us pause.— —There's the respeet That makes calamity of so long life ; For who would...of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...calamity of so long life ; For, who could bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love — the law's delay — The insolence of oflice, and the»'spurns . ff'' That patient merit of the unworthy takes—- When he himself might... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 384 pages
...That flesh is heir to ; 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. — To die — to sleepTo sleep ! perchance to dream ; ay, there's the rub — For in...of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus... | |
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