| George Crabb - 1826 - 736 pàgines
...is sometime* gamed by thos« to whom ho never could hare imparted his o»n. Maun. Trifles, Hgkt ал air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong, As proofs of holy writ. EASINESS, r. Ease. EAST, READY. EASY, (r. Ease, easincu,) signifies here a freedom from obstruction... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pàgines
...Men of intrigue. Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For other's uses. DEFINITION OP JEALOUSY. Trifles, light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations. strong As proofs of holy writ. lago. Look, where he comes! [Enter Othello. Not poppy, nor mandragora,* Nor all the drowsy syrups of... | |
| Extracts - 1828 - 786 pàgines
...solicitude, lest we should be supplanted in the affections of those we most highly esteem. Dr. Cogan. Trifles light as air Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. SHAKSPEARE. Jealousy is a species of envy, arising from a thought that there ie a preference given... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1828 - 448 pàgines
...for it Go, leave me. [Exit EMtLtA. I will m Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it: Trifles, light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. This may do something. The Moor already changes with my poison : Dangerous couceitsare, in their natures,... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1828 - 584 pàgines
...have been tokens of innocence, are converted into proof of guilt. Although poetry, it is no fiction ; "Trifles, light as air, "Are to the jealous confirmations strong, "As proofs of holy writ. Hence it is justly said to be the monster, that 'makes the meat it feeds on.' This passion is at times... | |
| Robert Huish - 1830 - 602 pàgines
...only refer to one point, and that point was one of all others most likely to excite her indignation. -Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ — and it must be allowed that the following discovery was sufficient to arouse the jealousy even... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 pàgines
...have been tokens of innocence, are converted into proof of guilt. Although poetry, it is no fiction ; "Trifles, light as air, "Are to the jealous confirmations strong, "As proofs of holy writ. Hence it is justly said to be the monster, that 'makes the meat it feeds on ;' for it perseveringly... | |
| John Towill Rutt - 1832 - 584 pàgines
...interest of France, we have made a very strange choice of situations in which to do mischief. But, Trifles light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong, As proofs of holy writ.• To REV. T. LINDSEY.f DEAR FRIEND, Northumberland, Sept. 6, 1798. SINCE your last, the intercepted letters... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1832 - 338 pàgines
...The greatest genius the world has ever produced, observes, in one of his most excellent plays, that Trifles, light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. That Mr. Booth began to be possessed by this worst of fiends, admits, I think, no longer doubt; for... | |
| 1832 - 564 pàgines
...our extreme jealousy for the pristine originality of the Welsh, may say that in our derivations, " Trifles light as air, are, to the jealous, Confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. There is one very singular etymological curiosity which in treating of Welsh derivations, we ought... | |
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