 | John Moore - 1803 - 322 pages
...nature. This passion has a tendency not only to sour the temper, but to obscure the understanding. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ. 204 DEPENDENTS. IT is a miserable trait in a young man's character, to prefer the company of obsequious... | |
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 308 pages
...lodging drop this handkerchief, That he mayjind it ; then persuade the Moor, His wife did give it - Trifles light as air, Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs from holy writ. This will work mischief. Dangerous conceits are in their nature poisons, Which at ihejirst... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 368 pages
...expressed the nature of jealousy in those lines, which, on this occasiou, he puts into the mouth of lago, ' Trifles light as air Are to the jealous, confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ.' It would he easy for a tasteless critic to turn any of the beauties 1 have here mentioned into ridicule... | |
 | Sarah Harriet Burney - 1808 - 412 pages
...jealous; and from the days of Shakespeare to the present moment, it has never been disputed, that " Trifles light as air, " Are to the jealous confirmation strong " As proofs of holy writ." In the course of the evening, whilst she and I were sitting at work upon the same sofa, with a small... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1815 - 746 pages
..." The lord's remark was certainly but a trifle ; but the noble lord should have re* collected, that Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, As proofs of holy writ Sir James Erskine defended lord North from the charge of the learned gentleman, appealing to the recollection... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...live upon the vapor of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing 1 love For others' uses. Jealousy. Trifles light as air . Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ. . The Tortures of Jealousy. Enter Othello. /ago. Look where he conies ! not poppy. nor mandragora,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1816 - 788 pages
...establish an intercourse between individuals, which has, perhaps, been casually commenced. Trifle«, light as air, Are to the jealous, confirmation» strong As proofs of holy writ. SHAISPKAEB. The silk-worm, after having spun her task. 1ауч ht-r egg!» and dies; but a man can... | |
 | Frances Peck - 1818 - 684 pages
...WEST; OR. NED OF THE HILLS. CHAP I. PERHAPS Edmund was precipitate; but, let us recollect, that c' Trifles light as air " Are to the jealous confirmation strong "As proofs of holy writ." Alas! the fatality, or misfortune, suspended over genius, was busy with that enthusiastic being, and... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1818 - 338 pages
...to shoot." And from Shakspeare she gained a great store of information — amongst the rest, that " Trifles light as air, " Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, "As proofs of Holy Writ.'* That • " The poor beetle, which we tread upon, '• In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great... | |
 | Rosalia St. Clair (pseud.) - 1820 - 258 pages
...sale of the dowager lady Glenwinnoch's nick-nacks. Fill your purse," she added, in a whisper, " for a continued run- of ill luck has emptied mine." "I am...jealous confirmation strong As proofs of Holy Writ. SHAKESPEARE. IT has been already observed, that the errors of Henrietta proceeded rather from thoughtlessnes... | |
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And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information — amongst the rest, that Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong As proofs of Holy Writ. 
