 Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned: and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But...  The Plays of William Shakspeare. .... - Page 44by William Shakespeare - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Frances Milton Trollope - 1832 - 304 pages
...unfortunately of a very different nature. Though there is some truth in the saucy saying of Rosalind, that " Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love ;" yet it can hardly be denied that love is, generally speaking, the passion which has the... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1832 - 378 pages
...love, it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapp'd him o' the shoulder, but I warrant him heartwhole. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them — but not for love. I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel, and to cry like a woman ; but I must... | |
 | Frances Milton Trollope - 1833 - 222 pages
...unfortunately of a very different nature. Though there is some truth in the saucy saying of llosalind, that "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love :" yet it can hardly be denied that love is, generally speaking, the passion which has the... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1834 - 322 pages
...replied Mr. Carlton, laughing ; " break his heart ! no, no, men's hearts don't break, pretty one ; ' Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.' — Break his heart ! no, no, believe me, he '11 go on breaking stones and mending roads... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...cramp, was drowned j and the foolish chroniclers' of that age found it was— Hereof Sestos. But these s it ; stain your own With oily painting: Shall I draw the curtain? 7x">n. No, not these twenty \ would not have my right Rosalind of this mind ; for, I protest, her frown might kill me. It"-'. By... | |
 | 1836 - 140 pages
...small wit. 184. Unstained thoughts, do seldom dream of evil. 185. A shrewd knave, and an unhappy. 186. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them ; but not for love. 0 let me not be mad ; not mad, sweet heaven. 188. 1 am wrapped in dismal thinkings. 189.... | |
 | lady Charlotte Susan M. Bury - 1836 - 1000 pages
...we were banished from the castle, you would at least accord him your compassion!" " Nonsense, Ethel! Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." Miss Delamere rejoined: " So it may be, Elizabeth, in the gay world, where one object drives... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1836 - 252 pages
...were banished from the castle, you would at least accord him your compassion t" " Nonsense, Ethel! Men have died from time to time, and .worms have eaten them, but not for love." Miss Delamere rejoined : "So it may be, Elizabeth, in the gay world, where one object drives... | |
 | Thomas Oliphant - 1837 - 376 pages
...time there " was not any man died in his own person, videlicet in a " love cause. All such tales are lies. Men have died from " time to time, and worms have eaten them ; — but not for « love." CXCIII. Thou art but young, thou say'st, And love's delight thou weigh'st not : Oh !... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...cramp, was drowned ; and the foolish chroniclers of that age, found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies ; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Orla. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind ; for, I protest, her frown might kill... | |
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