 Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore...  Lessings Werke - Page 183by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1766Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 432 pages
...curiosity in neither can make choice of cither's muiety. Curiosity — fastidiousness. L. i. 2, n. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ;...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me. Curu,ttJ — scrupulous. T. 8. iv. 4, n. For curiuus 1 cannot be with you. Curled hair. Luc. n. Let... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1853 - 288 pages
...first excites our loathing and horror so much less than the second ? When I hear the bastard say,d Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base ?... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1853 - 296 pages
...first excites our loathing and horror so much less than the second ? When I hear the bastard say,d Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base ?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...not, That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this. H. iii. 4. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services...bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ? KL i. 2. VILE. Though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honour'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 596 pages
...[Exeunt. 4C£A'£ IL— A hall in the Earl of Gloster's caslle. Enter Edmund, with a teller. E<lm. r for their king. Cos. Ay, do you fear it T Then must 1 think you would not have it so. Bni. \ plague1 of custom; and permit The curiosity4 ot nations to deprive me, For Uiat I am some twelve or... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...Enter EDMUND, with a letter. Earn. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are hound. dew ; But for the sunset of my brother's son, It rains downright. — How now ! a conduit, girl? what For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard; wherefore base ; When... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...gave rise To no little surprise, Nobody seemed one penny the worse! R. BarJiarn. Q 226 CUSTOM. CUSTOM. THOU, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound; wherefore should I Stand to the plague of custom. Shakspere. 'Tis base, And argues a low spirit, to be taught By custom, and... | |
 | Josiah Phillips Quincy - 1854 - 70 pages
...Edmund's soliloquy is removed by the correction of two blunders, that the copyist may easily have made. " Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ;...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or thirteen moonshines Lag of a brother." " Wherefore should I Stand on the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 pages
...something, and i' th' heat. 312 Exeunt. °*> 1.2 Enter Bastard [Edmund, solus, with a letter]. EDMUND Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services...should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit 3 The curiosity of nations to deprive me, 4 For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines 5 Lag... | |
 | Michael Bliss - 1999 - 622 pages
...at any special therapeutic shrine, to pay your vows to Natute, taking the motto of Edmund in Lear, 'Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law my services are bound.' The third lesson is that the functions of the physician are to co-operate with Nature, to aid her where... | |
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