 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pages
...that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 pages
...in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause - there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the poor man's contumely,28 The pangs of dispriz'd love, the... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 pages
...lists seven such calamities: For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 260 pages
...celebrated soliloquy and nowhere else in Shakespeare's works:1 The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes When he himself...quietus make With a bare bodkin; who would fardels bear. (m, i, 72-5) The dramatist seems to have recalled the tribulations of Lucius, the ass, in Book 7 of... | |
 | Robin Varnum, Christina T. Gibbons - 2001 - 254 pages
...in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life, For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 340 pages
...in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's... | |
 | John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - 2002 - 321 pages
...that sleep of death what dreams may come, 284 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause — there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's... | |
 | Ewan Fernie - 2002 - 292 pages
...(3.1.58); time 'whips and scorns' us (3.1.70); social life is a series of insults: Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes . . . (3.1.71-4) As Wilson Knight puts... | |
 | Jeffrey Thomas Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux - 2003 - 236 pages
...them? To die: to sleep; . . . For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd...unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? (3.1) This speech, often pointed to as dealing with the "universal" theme of self-determination... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - 2003 - 344 pages
...that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffl'd off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the [proud] man's contumely, 7 1 The pangs of dispriz'd love,... | |
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To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect... 
