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" Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. "
King Henry VI. Part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and ... - Page 1821
by William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe - 1709
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 446 pages
...passion of distemper'd blood. Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong : for pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves, All dues be render'd to their owners : now, What nearer debt in all humanity...
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 4

William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 pages
...passion of distempered blood Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong, for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves All dues be rendered to their owners : now, What nearer debt in all humanity...
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Shakespeare Studied in Eight Plays

Albert Stratford George Canning - 1903 - 514 pages
...passion of distemper'd blood Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision." — Act II. These words and style of reasoning are from Shakespeare's own mind, and would...
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Superstitions about Animals

Frank F. Gibson - 1904 - 222 pages
...reptile, or, at any rate, he thought it a capital specimen for purposes of illustration : " For pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision." — " Troilus and Cressida." " What ! Art thou like the adder waxen deaf?" —"King Henry...
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The Psalms in Human Life

Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1903 - 352 pages
...and kill their forlorn Queen " ; or when Hector tells Paris, in " Troilus and Cressida," " Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision," the allusion is to Psalm lviii. 4. Buckingham's words in " King Henry the Eighth " refer...
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Lectures and Essays (a Selection)

Robert Green Ingersoll - 1905 - 172 pages
...caverns of the brain. He knew the weakness of the will, the sophistry of desire, and " That pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decitribe. 97 He knew that the soul lives in an invisible world — that flesh is but a mask, and that...
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Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art with Special Reference to Their Use ...

John Vinycomb - 1906 - 306 pages
...art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf ? Be poisonous too." 2 King Henry VI. Act ii. sc. 2. " Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders To the voice of any true decision." Troilus and Cressida, Act ii. sc. 2. " He flies me now — nor more attends my pain Than...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 774 pages
...life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, eoine sweetness. — Matniiujrr. Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision. — Shakespeare. The pursuit in which we cannot ask Clod's protection must be rrimiunl :...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...in which our pleasures relish not some puin, onr sours, ноте sweetness. — JUassinger. Pleasure N+ decision. — Shakespeare. The pursuit in which we cannot ask God's protection in nst be criminal :...
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The Aldus Shakespeare: With Copious Notes and Comments, Volume 35

William Shakespeare - 1909 - 234 pages
...of distemper'd blood, Than to make up a free determination 170 'Twixt right and wrong; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves 166. "Aristotle thought"; Rowe and Pope proposed "graver sages think," to save...
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