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" If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. "
A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ... - Page 395
by Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 644 pages
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 602 pages
...wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would...tedious as to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off,...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...wonder 'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. wisht.for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw oil,...
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Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon

W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - 1996 - 356 pages
...wond'red at. By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays. To sport would...tedious as to work: But when they seldom come. they wish'd-for come. And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So. when this loose behaviour I throw off...
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Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare

Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 pages
...4.1.111-12; Henry V 4. 3. 100-103), as they will be when the carnival moves from Eastcheap to Westminster: If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would...tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents . . . (1.2.199-202) This utterance invites...
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Shakespeare Studies, Volume 26

Leeds Barroll - 1998 - 440 pages
...and Puritan skepticism regarding the institutionalized alternatives. Prince Hal's observation that "If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work" (1 Henry IV 1.2.204-5) is from one perspective deeply conservative. Delivered in a speech predicting...
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 60 pages
...more wondered at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapors that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would...they seldom come, they wished for come, And nothing pleascth but rare accidents. So when this loose behavior I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised,...
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Henry IV, Part 2

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 180 pages
...with the same brio once it lacks a law against which to strive. (As Prince Hal remarked in 1 Henry IV, "If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work.") The tavern milieu, by sheer familiarity, has lost its originality, like a too-oft-told joke; it has...
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Outdoor Careers: Exploring Occupations in Outdoor Fields

Ellen Shenk - 2000 - 228 pages
...because you love working on or in the water." See Commercio/ Diving, page 122. Chapter & Recreation If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. William Shakespeare, King Henry IV As the new millennium opens, organized recreation has increased...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 pages
...more wond'red at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would...tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off...
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Game, Set, Match: Winning the Negotiations Game

Henry S. Kramer - 2001 - 384 pages
...frame of reference. Always consider the other side's proposals in this light. PAY FOR TIME NOT WORKED "If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work." [William Shakespeare] Time on the job may be divided into two categories, time actually spent doing...
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