 | Clayton Koelb, Susan Noakes - 1988 - 392 pages
...these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites. I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses.21 Matters become more complex, however, when we note that some passages in the prescriptive literature... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...on SONG Jealousy Love is as strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. Bible, Song of Solomon I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon. Than keep a corner of the thing I love For others' uses. Othello, Othello William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist,... | |
 | Hildegard Baumgart - 1990 - 380 pages
...and he wants to be this precisely because of the greatness, indeed the boundlessness, of his heart. "I had rather be a toad, / and live upon the vapour...Than keep a corner in the thing I love / For others' uses" (3.3). But here it is not a matter of just anything that he does not want to share in his all-or-nothing... | |
 | Frangois Laroque - 1993 - 444 pages
...tormented by the obsessive notion that his wife's body has lain open to another man:-46 I hiiil rather he a toad And live upon the vapour of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses . . . (in, iii, 274-7) Similarly, when he addresses Emilia as You, mistress, That have the office... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 180 pages
...her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of...Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base; 'Tis destiny unshunnable,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 340 pages
...dear heartstrings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind to prey at fortune . . . ... I'd rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner of the thing I love, For other's uses. Desdemona comes! The burst of mixed passions with which he uttered... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...frightful than laughter. FRANÇOISE SAGAN (b. 1935). French novelist. Lucile, in U C/wTwrfe,ch.9(1965}. 12 I had rather be a toad. And live upon the vapour of...Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). English dramatist, poel. Olhcllo, in Othello, act 3, sc. 3.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 324 pages
...her. O, curse of marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapour of...Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great ones; 270 Prerogatived are they less than the base. Tis destiny... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1993). 5 O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of...Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 3, sc. 3,... | |
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O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others 
