 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 446 psl.
...passion of distemper'd blood. Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong : for pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves, All dues be render'd to their owners : now, What nearer debt in all humanity... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 psl.
...passion of distempered blood Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong, for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves All dues be rendered to their owners : now, What nearer debt in all humanity... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1903 - 514 psl.
...passion of distemper'd blood Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision." Act II. These words and style of reasoning are from Shakespeare's own mind, and would... | |
 | Frank F. Gibson - 1904 - 222 psl.
...reptile, or, at any rate, he thought it a capital specimen for purposes of illustration : " For pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision." " Troilus and Cressida." " What ! Art thou like the adder waxen deaf?" "King Henry... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1903 - 352 psl.
...and kill their forlorn Queen " ; or when Hector tells Paris, in " Troilus and Cressida," " Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision," the allusion is to Psalm lviii. 4. Buckingham's words in " King Henry the Eighth " refer... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1905 - 172 psl.
...caverns of the brain. He knew the weakness of the will, the sophistry of desire, and " That pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decitribe. 97 He knew that the soul lives in an invisible world that flesh is but a mask, and that... | |
 | John Vinycomb - 1906 - 306 psl.
...art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf ? Be poisonous too." 2 King Henry VI. Act ii. sc. 2. " Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders To the voice of any true decision." Troilus and Cressida, Act ii. sc. 2. " He flies me now nor more attends my pain Than... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 psl.
...life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, eoine sweetness. Matniiujrr. Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision. Shakespeare. The pursuit in which we cannot ask Clod's protection must be rrimiunl :... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 psl.
...in which our pleasures relish not some puin, onr sours, ноте sweetness. JUassinger. Pleasure N+ decision. Shakespeare. The pursuit in which we cannot ask God's protection in nst be criminal :... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 234 psl.
...of distemper'd blood, Than to make up a free determination 170 'Twixt right and wrong; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves 166. "Aristotle thought"; Rowe and Pope proposed "graver sages think," to save... | |
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Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. 
