 Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight: Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government.  The Noble Traytour: A Chronicle - Page 277by Thomas (of Swarraton, armiger, pseud.) - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Henry Halford Vaughan - English drama - 1886 - 670 pages
...' means ' woful words 'usher in woful events,' as Johnson, in effect, rightly explained. Gardener. Go thou, and, like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth. All must be even in our government. ' Too fast growing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 764 pages
...sire Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight ! Give some supportance to the bending twigs, — Go thou, and, like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth : All must be even in our government. You thus employed,... | |
 | William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 502 pages
...flowers, signifying the cutting off and the keeping low of the nobility " (" De Augmentis," VI. i.). Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays, That look too lofty in our common weal th ; All must be even in our government. ("Richard II.,"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1894 - 586 pages
...sire 30 Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight: Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government. You... | |
 | Plato - 1894 - 408 pages
...(Theaet. 1720,0). Their ideal of trimness seems too like that of the old English (or Dutch) gardener — ' Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth. All must be even in our government".'... | |
 | Plato - Political science - 1894 - 408 pages
...(Theaet. 1720, D). Their ideal of trimness seems too like that of the old English (or Dutch) gardener— ' Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing spra3's, That look too lofty in our commonwealth. All must be even in our government 2... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 312 pages
...oppression of their prodigal weight : 60 KING RICHARD II ACT m Give some supportance to the beading twigs. Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth : All must be even in our government.... | |
 | Virgil - Pastoral poetry, Latin - 1898 - 544 pages
...in 'imperia,' comp. I 99. There is much the same feeling in Shakspere, Richard II, Act HI Sc. 4, ' Go thou. and like an executioner. Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth : All must be equal in our government.'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 544 pages
...so slight or so fanciful that 29. apricocks, apricots. Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth : All must be even in our government.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - Conduct of life - 1900 - 318 pages
...lines 30—35. " He in fury shall Cut off the proud'st conspirator that lives." — Tit. And. iv. 4. " Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth." —Rtch. II. iii. 4. " Foemen mowed down in tops... | |
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