 Of 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 to say ' This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.  The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - Page 251by William Shakespeare - 1875Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking t<x> precisely on the event, — A thought, which, quarter"d, hath but one part wisdom, And, ever, three parts coward,...Examples, gross as earth, exhort me : Witness, this army ofsuch mass, and charge, I/ed by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...one part wisdom, And, ever, three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say. This things to do ; Sith I have cause, and will, and strength,...: Witness, this army of such mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...oblivion, or some craven7 scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought, which, quartered, I8vT7` i Sith* I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't Examples, gross as earth, exhort me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward,...have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do 't Examples gross as earth exhort me : Witness this army of such mase and charge, Led by a delicate... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...And, ever, three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say, Thit thing't to do; Sitl,f 1 have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To...me: Witness, this army of such mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffM, Makes mouths at the invisible... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th" event, — A thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward...I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do it. Examples gross as earth excite me : Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led by a delicate... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...wisdom, And, ever, three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet 1 live to say, This thing's to do; Silh4 i have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To...: Witness, this army of such mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puii'd, Makes mouths at the invisible... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 574 pages
...oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th' event, — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward,...: Witness, this army of such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff 'd, Makes mouths at the invisible... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1856 - 518 pages
...a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. * * * I do not know Why yet I live to say — 'this thing's...have cause and will and strength and means To do't." Act IV., Scene 4. Yet with all this strong conviction of duty, and with all this resolution arising... | |
 | Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — • A thought, which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward,...not know Why yet I live to say, ' This thing's to do f Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't." But this is the exaggeration of self-accusation.... | |
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