 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and nsr.j THE CONSEQUENCE OF LIBERTY INDULGED. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope...restraint: Our natures do pursue, (Like rats that raving down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die. ELOQUENCE AND BEAUTY. In... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 622 pages
...; yet still 't is just. Lucio. Why, how now, Claudio? whence comes this restraint? CLADD. From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every seope, by the immoderate use, Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin b down... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 512 pages
...'tis just Lucio. Why, how now, Claudio ? whence comes this restraint ? Gaud. From too much liberty.my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much...bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die. Lucio. If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors : and yet,... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - 1962 - 364 pages
...consequences in view. Fierce hate and hot lust for a mortal pleasure lead men to death ; as the poet says, Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evi! ; and when we drink we die. But the point here is this, Is the end only before the mind, with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 pages
...Lucio and two Gentlemen LUCtO Why, how now, Claudio, whence comes this restraint ? CLAUDIO From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty. As surfeit is the...to restraint. Our natures do pursue, Like rats that raven down their proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die. 1 20 weight. | WARBURTON ;... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - 1985 - 300 pages
...to all proceedings" (IV. iv. 20-21) — and Claudio repudiates even his loving union with Juliet — "Our natures do pursue / Like rats that ravin down...bane, / A thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die" (I.0.131-33). Procreation, which in the romantic comedies and in All's Well legitimizes sexuality and... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - 1994 - 324 pages
...what are we to do with Claudio's explanation to Lucio of the reasons for his arrest? Liberty, he says, as surfeit, is the father of much fast; so every scope by the immoderate use turns to restraint. So far we can follow him. We are familiar with this notion of abuse of liberty, but then comes: Our... | |
 | Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1995 - 232 pages
...social order. Even Claudio, the would-be bridegroom, speaks the language of destructive compulsion: As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope...immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, that Shakespeare wished to influence James's policy toward sex offenders, see Donald McGin, "'The Precise... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 294 pages
...but Calvinist that he was, he must have been struck by the play's startling image of original sin: Our natures do pursue Like rats that ravin down their...proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die. (1.2.128) Shakespeare's view of human nature is, however, broader than Calvinist theology. It is not... | |
 | Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1995 - 240 pages
...the Hothouses: Shakespeare's Advice to the King," tournai of Popular Culture 20 (1986): 81-88. [158] Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die. (1.2.126-30) It is difficult to imagine Lysander or Orlando censuring his own passion so savagely.... | |
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From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty ; As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint; our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drinK, we die. 
