 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...die before thee, pr'ythee, shroud me ID one of those same sheets. Emil. Come, come, you talk. Des. My mother had a maid call'd Barbara: She was in love...thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it: that song, to-night, Will not go from my mind ; I have much to do, But to go hang... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...die before thee, pr'ythee, shroud me In one of those same sheets. Emi. Come, come ; you talk. Des. My mother had a maid call'd Barbara ; She was in love, and he she loved proved mad,1 And did forsake her : she had a song of — Willow ; An old thing 'twas, but it... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1845 - 412 pages
...by Desdemona : — My mother had a maid, called Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she loved proved mad, And did forsake her : she had a song of willow,...thing 'twas ; but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it. I hope, however, that a better lot is in reserve for Phoebe "Wilkins, and that she... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 390 pages
...IV. 3. DESDEMONA. My mother had a maid, called—Barbara; She was in love ; and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her ; she had a song of willow,...thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it. Ludovicus Vives cautions women of quality from entertaining in their service young... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...sheets. Emil. Come, come, you talk. Des. My mother had a maid called Barbara : She was in love ; awl ark'd up a list of lawless resolutes, For food and diet, to died singing it: that song, to-night, Will not go from my mind; I have much to do, But to go hang my... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1849 - 502 pages
...Desdemona:— " My mother had a maid called Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she loved proved mnd, And did forsake her; she had a song of willow, An...thing 'twas; but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it." I hope, however, that a better lot is in reserve for Phoebe Wilkins, and that she... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...which subdue her soul, move tranquilly in an atmosphere of poetical beauty, thinking of the maid that " had a song of — willow ; An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it." It is a rude conception which Johnson has of Shakspere's art, when he says of the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 510 pages
...by Desdemona : — " My mother had a maid called Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she loved proved mad, And did forsake her ; she had a song of willow,...thing 'twas ; but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it." I hope, however, that a better lot is in reserve for Phoebe Wilkins, and that she... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...SONG. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs: More, I pr'ythee, more. AT ii. 5. My mother had a maid call'd Barbara ; She was in love...thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it. O. iv. 3. She bids you Upon the wanton rushes lay you down, And rest your gentle head... | |
 | 1851 - 362 pages
...character. He makes Desdemona introduce it in this pathetic and atfecting manner : " My mother had a mnid call'd Barbara : She was in love ; and he she lov'd...thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it." Ed. 1793, vol. xr. p. 613. This is given from a black-letter copy in the Pepys collection,... | |
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My mother had a maid call'd Barbara : She was in love ; and he she lov'd prov'd mad, And did forsake her : she had a song of " willow ;" An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it... 
