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" Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag... "
The Works of Shakespeare - Page 289
by William Shakespeare - 1752
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant, s, There's nothing serious in mortality. All is but toys; renown and grace is...lees Is left this vault to brag of. Enter MALCOLM and DONALDBAIN DONALDBAIN What is amiss? MACBETH You are, and do not know't. yo The spring, the head, the...
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality. All is but toys. Renown and grace is...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (2.3.90-5) At this stage we still hear some of the hyperbole of conscious dissimulation; later comes...
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The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays

Tom Stoppard - Drama - 1998 - 226 pages
...an hour before this chance 1 had lived a blessed time; far from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality. All is but toys; renown and grace is...lees Is left this vault to brag of. (Enter MALCOLM.) What is amiss? You are, and do not know't. Your royal father's murdered. By whom? Those of his chamber,...
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Geschichte und Vorgeschichte der modernen Subjektivität, Volume 1

Reto Luzius Fetz, Roland Hagenbüchle, Peter Schulz - History - 1998 - 1414 pages
...hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality; All is but toys: renown, and grace,...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (II.3.91-96) Nie zuvor hat Shakespeare sich einen Heuchler mit solcher authentischer Sprachgewalt ausdrücken...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...childhood That fears a painted devil. 10355 Macbeth A little water clears us of this deed. 10356 Macbeth ust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. 10029 Letter to 10357 Macbeth Come, seeling night. Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and...
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The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays

Tom Stoppard - Drama - 1998 - 226 pages
...instant There's nothing serious in mortality. All is but toys; renown and grace is dead, The wine of Ufe is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (Enter MALCOLM.) MALCOLM: What is amiss? MACBETH: You are, and do not know't. MACDUFF: Your royal father's murdered....
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Virgil: The Aeneid

Philip R. Hardie - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 412 pages
...Patroclus is the turning-point of Achilles' life. From that time forth, for him. There's nothing serious in mortality; All is but toys; renown and grace is...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. The essential shaping purpose of the Iliad, as a work of art, is to display, not by description or...
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Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. Foakes

R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys: renown and grace is...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (2.3.66-69, 91-96) The problem posed by not being able to judge the sincerity of the speaker by his...
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The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851

Charlotte Brontë - Authors, English - 1995 - 866 pages
...WSW 25.6.1849 and notes. Here there may be an additional echo of Macbeth, 1 1 . iii. 102-3, 'The vnne of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.' 5. This deleted word is almost illegible. W & S 363 read 'wanting', but the first two letters look...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...hour before this chance, I had lived a bless'd time; for from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys. Renown and grace is...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.39 62 Orson Welles on Shakespeare ( There is more of the light of pale, early dawn. A figure appears...
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