 | Robert Nares - 1867 - 580 páginas
...that is, " before ever." Ere being here a substitute for e'er, the contraction of ever. I would llave sunk the sea within the earth, or ere It should the good ship so have swallow M. Temp., i, 2. To schoole him once or ere I change my style. Hall, Sat., IV, 4. Milton has... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1869 - 234 páginas
...in The Tempest, v. 1. 164 : ' For 'tis a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast.' Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere It should the good ship so have swallow'd and The fraughting souls within her.' 174. nice seems here to mean ' fancifully minute,''... | |
 | 1870 - 314 páginas
...the cry did knock Against my very heart ! Poor souls ! they perished. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere It should the good ship so have swallowed, and The freighting souls within her ! " 6. Joy and Admiration. [ALONZO'S EXCLAMATION, OH BEHOLDING HIS SON... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 260 páginas
...their caps have time to wither. 173. or ere, a common pleonasm. Compare The Tempest, i. 2. 11: ' I would Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere It should the good ship so have swallow'd and The fraughting souls within her.' Ib. relation, tale, narrative. So in The Tempest, v.... | |
 | Robert Nares - 1872 - 552 páginas
...ere ever; that is, "before ever." Ere being here a substitute for e'er, the contraction of ever. I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere It should the good ship so have swallow'd. Temp., i, 2. To sclioole luiu once or ere I change my style. llall, Sat., IV, 4. Milton... | |
 | Robert Nares - 1872 - 562 páginas
..."before ever." Ere being here a substitute for e'er, the contraction of ever. I would Have sunk the eea within the earth, or ere It should the good ship so have swallow 'd. To sehoole him once or ere I change mv itvl Hall, Sat., Milton has used it : . IV, 4. The... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 576 páginas
...Thomas More); "orerewe meet" (Shakespeare, K.John, IV. 3); and again (Shakespeare, Temp.. I. 2) :" I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere It should the good ship so have swallowed." Yet our form "or ever" did exist as well. Mr. Wright quotes from Hamlet, I. 2 : " Would I had met my... | |
 | Alexander Schmidt - 1875 - 832 páginas
...debt should double, Ven. 521. why should you think that J should woo in scorn? Mids. Ill, 2. 122. I would have sunk the sea within the earth or ere it should the good ship so have swallowed, Tp. I, 2, 12. / had rather track my sinews than you should such dishonour undergo, 111, 1, 27. 'tis... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1876 - 432 páginas
...interpretation gives a clearer meaning in every case. Other instances from Shakspere are : — " I would " Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere It should the good ship so have swallowed." Tempest, i. 2. " I drink the air before me, and return Or ere your pulse twice beat." Tempest, v. 1.... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1876 - 442 páginas
...interpretation gives a clearer meaning in every case. Other instances from Shakspere are : — " I would " Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere It should the good ship so have swallowed." Tempest, i. 2. •• I drink the air before me, and return Or ere your pulse twice beat." Tempett,... | |
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Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere It should the good ship so have swallow'd and The fraughting souls within her. 
