 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 456 pages
...well-disposed, occurs in the Greek writers generally in the sense of weak, foolish, imbecile. V. 4. VALENTINE. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and RECORD my woes. A better illustration of the word record than any in the notes is supplied by a contemporary poet.... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...unfrequented woods I better brook than flourishmg pcopled towns; There enn I sit alone, unscen of men, And to the Nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my wocs." In The Passionate Pilgrim' he enlarges on this point : — " Everything did lanish moan, Sure... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing the cripple. But O! thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless, Lest, growing ruinous,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing o ? Cel. To seek my uncle In the forest of Arden. Ros. Alas, what danger will it be to us, O ! thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless, Lest, growing ruinous,... | |
 | John Mathew Gutch - 1847 - 458 pages
...breed a habit in a man I •This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than 1lourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes.' Their mode of life, in short, and domestic economy, of which no authentic particulars have been even... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...&c. 1. The shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : There can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. SHAKSPEARE. 2. And wisdom's self Oft seeks for sweet retir'd solitude, Where, with her best nurse,... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1847 - 844 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented wood, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here can I git alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses and record my woes." She knew, in fact, that a retreat amidst the lovelv or the solemn scenes in which monasteries were... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...Enter Valentine. Vol. How use doth breed a habit in a man This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than nourishing peopled towns • Here...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record* my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tcnantless ; Lest, growing ruinous,... | |
 | James M'Henry - 1848 - 470 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here I can sit alone unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses and record my woes. Oh ! thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion tenantless; Lest growing ruinous, the... | |
 | 1907 - 708 pages
...23*. And Shakespeare, who was certainly not a Greek, felt himself forced to swim with the tide : — Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. ' Two Gent, of Verona,' V. if. It would be interesting to know if any traditions bearing on the melancholy... | |
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This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. 
