 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 642 pages
...aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,...for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue71 for passion, That I have ? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothing ! For Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,...her ? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue71 for passion, That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 464 pages
...is not so. 11 ' The repetition, in a woman's ear, Would murder as it fell.' So in Hamlet : — • He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech.' And in The Puritan, 1607 :— ' The punishments that shall follow you in this world would milh horrour... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 508 pages
...his mvn cause for grief, with the assumed passion of the actor, ami bitterly exclaims :— ,.,„.. " What would he do, Had he the motive, and the cue for passion, Tbm /have?. — : But. I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or, c.rc. tkist... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...trea the enquiry about the source of the Nile, as the violent effect of a distempered fancy. ' What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her f " After all, the mere achievement of discovering the source of the Nile is nothing, compared with... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,...for passion That I have? He would drown the stage Tjjith tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid sp'eech; Make mad the guilty, and appal the free,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 448 pages
...With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing ! For Hecuha ! What's Hecuha to him, or he to Hecuha, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had...tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech ; Make mad the guilty, and appal the free, Confoand the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, The very faculties... | |
 | English drama - 1828 - 346 pages
...to see a robustious, periwig-pated fellow out-hcrod Herod— nor a mincing, affected fine lady — "Drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech." When the expression should be silent and unutterable — " Grief unaffected anits but ill with art,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothing ! Vor Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her ? What would lie do, '0 Muffled. (2) Blind. (3) Milky, .(l) Destruction. (5) Unnatural. TOL. II. Have oy the very... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1823 - 996 pages
...come down to the House and bewail the sufferings of Ireland — but what was Ireland to him ? " What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, " That he should weep for her ?" Mr. Hutchiruon thought it was invidious and unjustifiable to allude to any member in the manner... | |
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