 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...sharper than the sword : tongue, [breath Out-venums all the worms of Nile: whose Rides on the mating winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : Kings,...states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave. This viperous slander enters. A If'ifc't Innocency. Fulse to his bed ! What is it to be false f To... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...iv. /. 24. Thus, to explain the effects of slander, it is imagined to be a voluntary agent. -No, 'tis Slander; Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose...states, Maids, matrons; nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous Slander enters. Cymbeline, Act. III. Sc. 4. As also human passions: take the following... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 346 pages
...disloyal. Pis. What, shall I need to draw my sword ? the paper Hath cut her throat already. — " No, 'tis slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose...states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters. — What cheer, madam? Jmo. False to his bed ! What is it, to be false... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...on the good, on the wise and the foolish, the monarch and the beggar : " All corners of the earth, kings, queens, and states, maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave," are hardly hid from his searching glance. He was like the genius of humanity, changing places with... | |
 | Mrs. Ross, Author of The balance of comfort - English fiction - 1819 - 270 pages
...admiration and anger : " It is plain she never loved me ?" he sighed, and departed. CHAP. XXI. 'Tis slander, Whose edge Is sharper than the sword : whose...states, Maids, matrons, nay the secrets of the grave, This viperous slander enters. SHAKSPIARE. LORD Montague still retained the letter that had separated... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 pages
...edge i> sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Out venoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Ridrs on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of...states, Maids, matrons ; nay, the secrets of the grave This viperpus Slander enters. Shakspcare, Cymbeline, Act III. Sc. 4. AS also human passions : take... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...throat already. — No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue ) ut vri iimis all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the...corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, tlaids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters. — What cheer, madam... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...iv. 1. 24. Thus, to explain the effects of slander, it is imagined to be a voluntary agent. -No, 'tis Slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose...tongue Out-venoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rid«* on the posting winds, and doth belie All corr.ers of the world, kings, queens,, and states,... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...that, blasts the fairest reputation, and sinks the envied possessor into disgrace and ruin ? -" 'Tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose...states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave, This viperous slander enters." 1. PHILIP, king of Macedon, is celebrated for an act of private justice,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...whose tongue Qutvenoins all the worms of Nile, whose hreath Rides on the posting winds, and doth helie All corners of the world, kings, queens, and states,...poets have indulged in this species of figure. Homer personifies prayers, and converts them into amiahle heings, under the feigned appellation of " Jove's... | |
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tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave... 
