 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pages
...ARABELLA. Thrice blessed they that master so their bloodBut earthly happier is the rose ilistill'd, ed, crowds have cast Admiring glances, wondering as they Midsummer Night's Dream, act I. sc. 1. I sometimes do excuse the thing I hate, For his advantage whom... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1837 - 320 pages
...VOX.. V. B TALE IX. ARABELLA. Thrice blessed they that master so their blood — But earthly happier is the rose distill'd, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, ar.d dies in single blessedness. Midsummer Night's Dream. I sometimes do excuse the thing I hate, For... | |
 | Edwin Guest - 1838 - 476 pages
...Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage ; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thoru, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. MND 1. 1. * Much difficulty arises from the vast... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...ARABELLA. Thrice blessed they that master so their blood — But earthly happier is the rose dlstill'd, ne: Some prompt ejaculation, whisper'«! low, Yet bears him up ¡igain ÍD single blessedness. Midsummer Night'e Dream, act i. K. l. I sometimes do excuse the thing I hate,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 pages
...master so their blood To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.5 HERMIA So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up... | |
 | Camille Wells Slights - 1993 - 316 pages
...glass' (li210). Conversely, Theseus speaks of a married woman as a 'rose distill'd' in contrast to 'that which withering on the virgin thorn / Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness' (li76-8). Lysander speaks of the roses fading from Hermia's cheek A Midsummer Night's Dream 115 and... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - 1994 - 284 pages
...Thrice blessed they that master so their blood To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; 75 But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering...thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. Her. So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up 80 Unto his lordship,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...Di«"*, goddess of chastity) To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distilled Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. HERMIA So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up to Unto his lordship... | |
 | 1995 - 108 pages
...happy is the rose distilled (THESEUS points to HYPPOLYTA, SHE growls wildly, EVERYONE on stage jumps.) Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. HERMIA. So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up Unto his lordship... | |
 | Louis Montrose - 1996 - 246 pages
...moon. Thrice blessed they that master so their blood To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering...thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. (1.1.65-66, 71-78) Theseus's rhetoric concisely stages a Reformation debate on the relative virtues... | |
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But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. 
