 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...know the point. ISABELLA 0, 1 do fear thee, Claudio, and I quake Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than...die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension, 70 Though] HOWE; Through F the phrase means 'break the heart, cause 72 you consenting if you consent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Chastity - 1995 - 148 pages
...know the point. ISABELLA O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than...corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.65 80 CLAUDIO Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flow'ry tenderness?... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - English wit and humor - 1996 - 690 pages
...issue with Claudio, and there is a grim comedy about her argument for the insignificance of death: "The sense of death is most in apprehension. / And...sufferance finds a pang as great / As when a giant die." In short, death is death — so what's the big problem ? The audience may wince at Isabella's... | |
 | Eamonn Jones, Jean Marlow - Performing Arts - 2002 - 180 pages
...know the point. ISABELLA O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than...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 flow'ry tenderness? If... | |
 | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - Drama - 1998 - 370 pages
...feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Darest thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension;...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? If... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - English drama - 2000 - 330 pages
...know the point. ISABELLA O, I do fear thee, Claudio, and I quake Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than...And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufference finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. CLAUDIO Why give you me this shame? Think you... | |
 | David Spooner - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 182 pages
...drawing on a characteristic universal sympathy: Dar'stthoudie? The sense of death is most in apprehensio And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Or he weaves the insect into a metaphor for the whole art of statehood in Troilus and Cressida: When... | |
 | Timothy Morton - Cooking - 2000 - 304 pages
...beak or claws of a vulture. Essay on regimen, p. 70. Our immortal Shakspeare was of the same opinion: "And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dyes." Measure for Measure. superior hapyness which he has communicateed to reasonable beings, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...12-19. 121. We must finde] WA WRIGHT: That is, experience, feel. Compare Meas. for Meas., III, i, 80, 'And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.' With Manacles through our ftreets, or elfe 125 Triumphantly treade on thy Countries ruine, And beare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 458 pages
...interjection (a form of pish). 41. sufferance] That is, suffering. See Meas. for Meats. III, i, 80 : 'the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great as when a giant dies.' See I, iii, 9, where it means endurance, as in Mer. of Fen. : 'For sufferance is the badge of all our... | |
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And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
