 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...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. 1 " The foolish chroniclers." Sir Thomas Hanmer reads coroners ; and it must be confessed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 362 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. Orl. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind ; for, I protest, her frown might kill... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 400 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. Or/. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind ; for, I protest, her frown might kill... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 560 pages
...cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos1. But these are all lies: men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Orl. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind, for, I protest, her frown might kill... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...the foulUti chroniclers of that age found it was " Hero oi Scstos." But these are all lies; men bave died from time to time, and worms have eaten them; but not for love. Orl. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind ; for I protest her frown might kill... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (4.1.81-3, 86-101) The word-play here on 'person' (as theatrical role, as legal agent, as... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 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. [^.¡.65-103] HAROLD BLOOM casan. Las doncellas son mayo cuando son doncellas, pero el cielo... | |
 | Erich Segal - Performing Arts - 2009 - 612 pages
...connotations of "dying." In As You Like It, Shakespeare's Rosalind debunked this poetic hyperbole: Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.57 Yet here in Shakespeare's last "happy comedy" we have something closer to a real death.... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin - Drama - 2001 - 36 pages
...would die for love of Rosalind but 'Ganymede' scoffs at this romantic idea. To die for love? . . . men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Act iv Sc i Orlando soon has to hurry away to keep an appointment. Rosalind eagerly awaits... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...ultimate destiny. The disguised Rosalind in As You Like It, iv, 1, laughs at the lovelorn Orlando: "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." The disguised Viola turns the figure in Twelfth Night, ii, 4, picturing her own forced restraint... | |
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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.... 
