| 1842 - 604 páginas
...are more — they are the ideas themselves, and the sense is in the sound. Romeo may be right when he says that A rose by any other name would smell as sweet ; but the savour of crimes and offences depends entirely upon the name you attach to them. Will any one pretend... | |
| 1830 - 824 páginas
...constitutional purposes of the society. If the object be changed, the name should be changed also. We are aware that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but this argument will not justify the line of proceeding which the managers of the institution have thought... | |
| Samuel Hanson Cox - 1842 - 192 páginas
...divines or philosophers. " Names are things," said a practically wise man. A great poet has said indeed, that A rose by any other name would smell as sweet: but, for one, I question it. Our associations with the name, ROSE, are delightful. They are fragrant and... | |
| 1859 - 684 páginas
...indignant if this is imputed to them — but " head-money " for their votes. Shakespeare indeed has said that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet ; but there are some things which are not roses, and which are thought to smell a great deal sweeter by any... | |
| Albert Gallatin Brown - 1859 - 644 páginas
...whether you call this tribunal a board of claims, or call it a court, for I have been taught to think that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet;" but I am wholly at a loss to determine why the name of this tribunal has been changed by the committee,... | |
| 1867 - 524 páginas
...but so many artificial conventions, in themselves all, or nearly all, non-significant ; and not only that " a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but that any other name would be just as significant, or rather just as non-significant of its fragrance.... | |
| Benjamin Dann Walsh, Charles Valentine Riley, George Vasey - 1868 - 272 páginas
...(European) Locust, that has got good stout serviceable jaws of its own. Shakspeare has poetically remarked, that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet;" but there is a great deal more in a name than Shakspeare seems to have imagined. Suppose that roses were... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1877 - 416 páginas
...indignant if this is imputed to them — but ' head-money,' for their votes. Shakespeare indeed has said that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet ; but there are some things which are not roses, and which are thought to smell a great deal sweeter by any... | |
| 1882 - 762 páginas
...•was by a firm new to the electric light world, viz., Ruston and Proctor, of Lincoln. Shakespeare says that a " rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but I doubt very much whether an inventor would consider that an invention of his would smell as sweet... | |
| Henry Christopher McCook - 1884 - 490 páginas
...wn-scientific use of the imagination, excited by that old and false name 'locusts.' Shakespeare has said that ' a rose by any other name would smell as sweet ;' but there is a great deal more in a name than the poet seems to have thought. To quote the language of... | |
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