10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WREAKFUL»
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The Works of Shakespeare
By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes. Come down, and welcome me to
this world's light ; Confer with me of murder and of death ; There's not a hollow
cave, nor lurking place, No vast obscurity, or misty vale, Where bloody Murder or
...
William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis),
1752
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The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
The OED has two entries for wreckful, the first of which, meaning “vengeful,” it
declares “obsolete,” and the last example of it is dated 1610; but a related word,
wreakful (in a separate entry) carried that meaning into the mid-eighteenth
century.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat,
2004
3
A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
To ease the gnawiug vulture of thy mind, By working wreakful vengeance ou thy
foes. Tttms Andr., v, 8. Ne any liv'd on ground that durst withstand His dreadfull
heust, much less him match in fight, Or bide the horror of his wreakfull hand,
When ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright,
1867
4
A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare
Wreakful. Indignant; angry. Call the creatures, Whose naked natures live in all the
spite Of wreakful heaven ; bid them natter thee. Timon of Athens, iv. 3. Wreck.
Destruction ; ruin. Or that with both He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not.
5
Book of English epithets, literal and figurative: with ...
Withering Wreakful . . Wrath-tcinged Writhin . . Yellow . . . Benignant Bicorned .
Blanc . . Blank . . Blaunchie. Yet fleeter than the trackless lightning's flame. I felt
the transverse lightning linger warm Upon my cheek . You oftentimes behold the
...
6
Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of his ...
... Ulysses), OED Wrathful a.1b [1563]; wreakful 'terrible': By working wreakefull
vengeance on thy Foes: (TA 5.2.32, Tamora), OED Wreakful [1531]; youthful '
vigorous, active': warme youthfull blood, (RJ 2.4.12, Juliet), OED Youthful a.1 [
1590].
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Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays
I am Revenge, sent from th'infernal kingdom To ease the gnawing vulture of thy
mind By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes. Come down and welcome me
to this world's light, Confer with me of murder and of death: There's not a hollow ...
William Shakespeare, Professor Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen,
2011
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Works, Containing His Plays and Poems: To which is Added a ...
By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes. Come down, and welcome me to
this world's light ; Confer with me of murder and of death : There's not a hollow
cave, or lurking-place. No vast obscurity, or misty vale, Where bloody murder, ...
William Shakespeare,
1797
9
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets
Thus to her sisters of the sea she turn'd, and bade them ope The doors and
deeps of Nereus ; she in Olympus' top Must visit Vulcan for new arms, to serve
her wreakful c son, And bade inform her father so, with all things further done.
This said ...
Homer, John Flaxman,
1843
Call the creatures 228 Whose naked natures live in all the spite Of wreakful
heaven, whose bare unhoused trunks To the conflicting elements expos'd,
Answer mere nature; bid them flatter thee; 232 O, thou shalt find — Tim. A fool of
thee.
William Shakespeare, Stanley T. Williams,
2010
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Reading Shakespeare in Kandahar
'Ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind/By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes.' On a sunny morning in October 2009, Capt. Michael Thurman, an eloquent ... «Foreign Policy, Sep 11»