10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CURSTNESS»
Discover the use of
curstness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
curstness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
they had horns to their curstness,* and power answerable to their wills, we
should not breathe a minute. Is it any thanks to ourselves 1 Nor that neither : we
have neither number to match them, nor policy to defeat them, nor strength to
resist ...
Robert Sanderson, Izaak Walton, 1854
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Plays Accurateley Printed from the Text of the Corrected ...
Nor curstness grow to the matter.' Ant. 'Tis spoken well: Were we before our
armies, and to fight, I should do thus. Caes. Welcome to Rome. Ant. ' Thank you.
Cree. Sit. Ant. . Sit, sir! C688. _ Nay, Then—— Ant. I learn, you take things ill,
which ...
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, 1811
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The Works of Robert Sanderson, D.D., Sometime Bishop of Lincoln
they had horns to their curstness,* and power answerable to their wills, we
should not breathe a minute. Is it any thanks to ourselves ? Nor that neither : we
have neither number to match them, nor policy to defeat them, nor strength to
resist ...
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Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus ...
May it be gently heard: When we debate Our trivial difference loud, we do commit
Murder in healing wounds 5 Then, noble partners, (The rather, for I earnestly
beseech,) Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, Nor curstness grow
to ...
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, 1826
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Plays and poems of William Shakespeare
So afterwards : " I crave our composition may be written — ." i. e. the terms on
which our differences are settled. Steevens. 1 Nor curstness grow to the matter.]
Let not ill-humour be added to the real subject of our difference. Johnson. Cms.
Sit.
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, 1821
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A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare
Curstness. HI humour ; peevishness. Touch you the sourest points with sweetest
terms, Nor curstness grow to the matter. Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 2. Curtains.
Flags; colours. Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose, And our air shakes
them ...
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Shakspeare's tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, with ...
Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, Nor curstness grow to the
matter.1 Ant. 'T is spoken well. Were we before our armies, and to fight, I should
do thus. Cces. Welcome to Rome. Ant. Thank you. Cces. Sit. Ant. Sit, sir. Cces.
Nay ...
William Shakespeare, John Hunter (of Uxbridge), 1870
So afterwards: “ I crave our composition may be written—." i. e. the terms on
which our difierences are settled. STEEVBNS. 1 Nor curstness grow to the matter.
] Let not ill-humour be added to the real subject of our diflerence. J ozmsoN. Cms.
Sit ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, 1821
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Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With ...
1 If we compose well here,] i. e. if we come to a lucky composition, agreement. So
afterwards : " I crave our composition may be written — ." i. e. the terms on which
our differences are settled. Steevens. 2 Nor curstness grow to the matter.
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, 1820
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The Art of English Poesy
... the meritorious love of Christ our Savior.11 Thus: Her lowly looks, that gave life
to my love;11 With spiteful speech, curstness, I3 and cruelty, She killed my love.
Let her rigor remove,14 Her cheerful lights and speeches of pity Revive my love.
George Puttenham, Richard Puttenham, John Lumley Baron Lumley, 2007
