| Henry Gardiner Adams - Conduct of life - 1844 - 200 pages
...net Spread by the false and cruel, who delight In the ingenious torment they contrive. Miss LANDON. SLANDER whose edge is sharper than the sword ; Whose...tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; Whose breath doth ride upon the posting winds, And doth belie all corners of the world : Kings, queens, and states... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - Conduct of life - 1844 - 206 pages
...net Spread by the false and cruel, who delight In the ingenious torment they contrive. Miss LANDON. SLANDER whose edge is sharper than the sword ; Whose...tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; Whose breath doth ride upon the posting winds, And doth belie all corners of the world : Kings, queens, and states... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...make me certain it is done, thou art the pandar to her dishonour, and equally to me disloyal." Pis. What shall I need to draw my sword? the paper Hath cut her throat already. — No ; 't is slander , Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile... | |
| Leicester Buckingham - 1844 - 430 pages
...STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND. L. STANHOPE F. BUCKINGHAM. 'Tis slander; Whose breath is sharper than tlie sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON:... | |
| Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 472 pages
...Fitz-ford, where he now purposed to pass the night, instead of returning to Lidford. CHAPTER XXXIV. No, 'tis Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword;...breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All comers ot the world: Kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave, This... | |
| 1846 - 604 pages
...uncommonly amiable, lovely, virtuous, and of good report, and he Boon will be assailed by the voice of slander— " Whose edge is sharper than the sword...posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world." Alas 1 how often is the heart of the virtuous made to ache and RLEED by the vice of evil speaking.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...make me certain it is done, thou art the pandar to her dishonour, and equally to me disloyal." Pis. you edict; is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides... | |
| George Fletcher - 1847 - 416 pages
...Please you, read ; And you shall find me, wretched man, a thing The most disdain'd of fortune ! . . . . What shall I need to draw my sword ? — The paper Hath cut her throat already ! How beautifully does her recovering exclamation contrast with her husband's rumination, to which... | |
| 1848 - 650 pages
...husband's jealousy and intended revenge. As he places his written instructions in her hand, he exclaims What shall I need to draw my sword ? the paper Hath cut her throat already. Then comes his passionate and impressive burst of feeling, and it is well worth wide attention. No,... | |
| William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 160 pages
...being so allow' d. Stony limits cannot hold love out ; And what love can do, that dares love attempt. Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose...whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth helie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the... | |
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