 | Herbert Lockyer - 244 pages
...American dramatist and poet, repeated the lines also credited to Peterson, another actor: "Reason tbus with life, If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing that none but fools would keep." PALMER (1842-1933), American scholar, as he came to die quoted a line used on the stage while performing... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 2004 - 264 pages
...act of Measure for Measure. Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life. If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. The speech is a formal 'persuasion' -'Reason thus with life'- and TW Baldwin points out that Shakespeare... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 pages
...like the preachers before him, must first evoke in Claudio a sense of the frustrations of life: Duke: Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose...thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict. . , . Thou art not certain, For thy complexion... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - 1993 - 294 pages
...this Vienna, which makes death or life thereby the sweeter. Claudio must reason thus with life: If1 do lose thee I do lose a thing That none but fools...thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keepst Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art death's fool, For him thou... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 pages
...Duke's pronouncements. He lapses into the first person as he tells Claudio to "reason thus with life":83 "If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing / That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art, / ... Merely, thou art Death's fool" (MM 3.1.7-11; italics added).84 Hamlet finds relief from such... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...smiled and wondered how. 74 Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose...thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict; merely, thou art death's fool, For him thou... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...arms gave him a right to plunder him at pleasure. (12)... [On Measure for Measure, 3.1.6ff. DUKE. — Reason thus with life; If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep:] Dr. Warburton, in order I presume to lay hold of an occasion for altering the text, excepts against... | |
 | Eleanor Arnason - 1994 - 408 pages
...line! And then he goes on with one argument after another for why life isn't worth holding on to. " 'Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.' "What beautiful language! And what a crock of shit!" He tasted the coffee. "This isn't the way I remember... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 148 pages
...either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If I do lost thee, I do lost a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art Death's fool; For him thou... | |
 | John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 278 pages
...life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. William Shakespeare Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us therefore be cautious... | |
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Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That do this habitation, where... 
