 | George Frederick Graham - 1849 - 380 sivua
...wavers. He who is alternately affected by conflicting passions or feelings — -fluctuates. [Duke. Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won Than women's are. Tic. Night, ii. 4 prepense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 sivua
...the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart me into mine eyes, And gave me up to tears. • Lasting....Who bas no more gentility. • Reached. K. Hen. I Vio. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot... | |
 | 1893 - 688 sivua
...sorrowful confession does he add the reason—a reason which reflects little honour on the man :— For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and nnfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. It is scarcely necessary to... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 318 sivua
...the woman lake An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies...women's are. Viola. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent ; For women are as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 656 sivua
...the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she io him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,1 Than women's are. Vio. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 sivua
...the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him. So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,1 Than women's are. Vio. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 306 sivua
...woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, &.i stcays she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies...women's are. Viola. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy lore be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent ; For women are as... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1851 - 350 sivua
...woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies...wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are." " Shakespeare must have been an idle fellow himself, and libelled all his sex, by giving them his own... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 sivua
...the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. Viola. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself,... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 sivua
...the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies...wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. — The Duke, in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Let there be no great disproportion in age. They that... | |
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What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are... 
