 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1813 - 416 pages
...And thus his eare is nought deceived." Shakspeare has the same allusion in Troilus and Cressida : " Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice " Of any true decision." STEEVENS. 1 aukward wind — ] Thus the old copy. The modern editors read adverse winds.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1814 - 578 pages
...calculate under temptation they have hitherto been sure to err. Under the influence of strong desires we have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision. I therefore implore my honourable, excellent, and learned friend to desist from these attempts.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. Pleasure and Revenge. Pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. The Subtlety of Ulysses, and Stupidity ofAjax. Ajax. I do hate a proud man, as I hate the... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...Shaktpeare, CymbeUne, Act III. .V,:. 4. As also human passions : take the following example : For Pleasure and Revenge Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice Of any true decision. Troilut and Cre'ada, Ml II. fie 4. Yirgil explains fame and its effects by a still greater... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...enters. Cymbeline, Act. III. Sc. 4. As also human passions: take the following example : -For Pleasure and Revenge Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice Of any true decision. Troilus and Cressida, Act II. Sc. 2. Virgil explains fame and its effects by a still greater... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 612 pages
...And thus his eare is nought deceived." Shakspeare has the same allusion in Troilus and Cressida : " Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice " Of any true decision." STEEVENS. s — awkward wind — ] Thus the old copy. The modern editors read — adverse... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 636 pages
...passion of distemper'd blood, Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong; for pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves, All dues be render'd to their owners; Now What nearer debt in all humanity,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...passion of distemper'd blood, Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong; For pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves, All dues be rrntWd to their owners; Now What nearer debt in all humanity,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 358 pages
...passion of distemper'd blood, Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong ; For pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves, All dues be render'd to their owners ; Now What nearer debt in all humanity,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. PLEASURE AND REVENGE. For pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. THE SUBTLETY OF ULYSSES, AND STUPIDITY OF AJAX. Ajax. I do hate a proud man, as I hate the... | |
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Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. 
