 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pages
...bastardy ; we still say base born. 10 ' Whose sting is sharper than the sword's.' So in Cymbeline : ' Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.' (For, as the case now stands, it is a curse He cannot be compell'd to't), once remove The root of his... | |
 | Ambrose Marten - 1826 - 926 pages
...and sound at Rome. JENNY KELLY. No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongne Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie AH corners of the world. How many an affecting narrative might be drawn from the stories which the... | |
 | David Garrick - 1798 - 284 pages
...her throat already. No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the swo'd, whose tongue Out-venoins all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth bel" e All cornei s ot the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nr.y, the secrets of... | |
 | Marcus Garvey - 1983 - 894 pages
...(I will not say malicious) statement. Produce your facts, Mr. John [CJrosby, and be specific. "No, 'tis slander whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue out-venoms all the worms of Nile." The people who comprise the membership of the UNIA are at least intelligent enough to understand that... | |
 | 1876 - 590 pages
...slander, applies to this statement. '* No, 'tis Slander Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whoee tongue Out-venoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds ; and doth belle All corners of the world ; Kings, Queens, States, Maids, Matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pages
...contemplates her shock: "What shall I need to draw my sword? The paper / Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander, / Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue / Outvenoms all the worms [serpents] of Nile . . . nay the secrets of the grave / This viperous slander enters" (III.iv.34-41).... | |
 | Maurice Hunt - 1990 - 196 pages
...commonplace of slander: What shall I need to draw my sword? the paper Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword,...secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters. (3.4.32-39) A character in Cymbeline often begins with one interpretation of an event, catches himself... | |
 | 1874 - 1024 pages
...out a piteous case for Hero, " done to death by slanderous tongues ; " and again for Imogen : " No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms nil the worms of Nile; whose breath Hides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of ike world;... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 pages
...Policy Son of Shame. Indeed Hate Controlls all the Gods. at will. Like Strife before (1 32), Slander "Rides on the posting winds and doth belie / All corners of the world," frequently to the poisoning of sexual trust (as in the context of the quotation, Cymbeline 3.4.36-37).... | |
 | Maurice O'Sullivan - 1997 - 240 pages
...eyes. And again this passage, called forth possibly by the letters of the Rev. Walter Blaise:Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose Tongue...posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world. As also then:Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles,... | |
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tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave... 
