 | Ambrose Marten - 1827 - 382 pages
...took leave of the ladies and sisterhood, and arrived safe and sound at Home. JENNY KELLY. No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose...posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world. How many an affecting narrative might be drawn from the stories which the " simple annals" of humble... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1827 - 826 pages
...secret." Mr. Merrill was perhaps as prone to give heed to the testimony of that viperous slander that " rides on the posting winds, and doth belie all corners of the streets," as his neighbours, and he might, by the list of very respectable names quoted as aiding to... | |
 | David Garrick - 1798 - 284 pages
...her throat already. No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the swo'd, whose tongue Out-venoins all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth bel" e All cornei s ot the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nr.y, the secrets of... | |
 | Marcus Garvey - 1983 - 894 pages
...will not say malicious) statement. Produce your facts, Mr. John [CJrosby, and be specific. "No, 'tis slander whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue out-venoms all the worms of Nile." The people who comprise the membership of the UNIA are at least intelligent enough to understand that... | |
 | 1876 - 590 pages
...slander, applies to this statement. '* No, 'tis Slander Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whoee tongue Out-venoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds ; and doth belle All corners of the world ; Kings, Queens, States, Maids, Matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pages
...contemplates her shock: "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 tongue / Outvenoms all the worms [serpents] of Nile . . . nay the secrets of the grave / This viperous slander enters" (III.iv.34-41).... | |
 | Maurice Hunt - 1990 - 196 pages
...commonplace of slander: 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. (3.4.32-39) A character in Cymbeline often begins with one interpretation... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 pages
...Policy Son of Shame. Indeed Hate Controlls all the Gods. at will. Like Strife before (1 32), Slander "Rides on the posting winds and doth belie / All corners of the world," frequently to the poisoning of sexual trust (as in the context of the quotation, Cymbeline 3.4.36-37).... | |
 | Maurice O'Sullivan - 1997 - 240 pages
...eyes. And again this passage, called forth possibly by the letters of the Rev. Walter Blaise:Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose Tongue...posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world. As also then:Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles,... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...plain, he must speak truth. William Shakespeare, 1605-6, King Lear, II. ii. (Oxford) 94 36:86 [Pisanio] Slander, / Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose...posting winds and doth belie / All corners of the world. William Shakespeare, 1610-11, Cymbeline, III. iv. 33 36:87 If you want truth to go round the world... | |
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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... 
