...varying and noble music — but who that heard the words — " You are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart ;" can forget, during life, the tenderness of the rich melody in which thov passed through Macready's...

...again did start." Fairy Brutus says to his wife Portia — '• You are my true and honorable wife ; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops' That visit my sad heart." — Julius Cttsar, Act 2. Does it not seem strange that the imagination of Spenserand Shakspeare should...

...it be no more, Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife. Bru. You are my true and honorable wife ; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. Par. If this were true, then should I know this secret. I grant, I am a woman ; but, withal, A woman...

...start." Fairy Цшеп. Brutus says to his wife Portia — '• You are ray true and honorable wife ; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.1' — Julius Casar, Act 2. Does it not seem strange that the imagination of Spenser and Shakspeare...

...HIS être — " Yon arc my true and honourable wife. Ai dear to me as are the ruddy drops That viiit my sad heart," says the troubled Brutus to Portia. who has expressed a misdoubting uf his true and clear affection for her. Is this "antiquated'' English, ami thence " unintelligible...

...editors. The passage referred to is the well-known one — " You are my true and honourable wife ; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart." — Act ii., sc. 1. Now, what I wish to call your attention to in this passage is, that it contains,...

...editors. The passage referred to is the well-known one — " You are my true and honourable wife ; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart." — Act ii., sc. 1. Now, what I wish to call your attention to in this passage is, that it contains,...

...Gray himself quotes the following line from Shakspere, as the original of this expression : — " As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart." Julius Conor. Act ii, scene 2. 5 Tissue of thy line — ie the web of fate in which are pictured as...

...which they so confidently proposed to fitly-prepared readers. " You are my true and honourable wife As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad..." antiquated" English, and thence " unintelligible ?" " Viola.—My father had a daughter loved a man, As it might be, perhaps, WEKE i A WOMAK, I should...

...415, n. 3. oder direkt an Shakespeares Jul. Caesar, H, l, 289: You are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. Zu Thomson. Über Thomson und Burns hat Ritter ziemlich erschöpfend gehandelt. Seinen Bemerkungen...