 | John Hay Athole Macdonald - 1909 - 566 str.
...the number of those whom it was desirable to induce to take commissions. So true is it that "Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision." The leisured, it must be said with regret, ceased too soon to yield anything but a nominal... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1910 - 232 str.
...deceivers ever ; One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Decision. — Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice Of any true decision. — Troi. & Cress. Act 2,' Sc. 2. Deed — Deeds. — 111 deeds are doubled with an evil... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 str.
...Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. 3843 Shaks.: Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. 1 Pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice Of any true decision. 3844 Shaks. : Trail, and Cress. Act ii. Sc. 2, I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1912 - 404 str.
...of distempered blood, Than to make up a free determination 170 Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves All dues be renderYl to their owners : now, What nearer debt in all humanity... | |
 | 1913 - 264 str.
...Hatred. My injur'd honor, Impatient of the wrong, calls for revenge. Rowe: Lady Jane Grey. Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Shakespeare: Troilus and CrcssidaRevenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long, back on... | |
 | Torsten Hilding Svartengren - 1918 - 558 str.
...NEDV and the Chaucerian, Thou shall make him couche as doth a quaille. See Still, Ch. IV. Pleasure and revenge/ Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice/ Of any true decision. Shak., TC, II, ii, 172. I am as deaf as an adder. Dryden, A, VI, 108. Ye are deaf as adders... | |
 | Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy - 1919 - 332 str.
...would nurture such cruel Schemes? And yet, did not the late Mr. Shakespeare warn us that " Pleasure and Revenge have ears more deaf than Adders to the voice of any true decision" ? Ah, me! but I was sick at heart. CHAPTER XIV THE RULING PASSION And now, dear Mistress,... | |
 | Hugh Elliot - 1922 - 302 str.
...of a solicitor or friend. All passions blunt and deaden the faculty of judgment. "... For pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision." The rational pursuit of personal interest is often disturbed by gusts of passion or of milder... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 str.
...For what I will, I will, and there an end. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc.3. L.65. 17 Pleasure . 1. 4 Affection is a coal that must be cool'd; Else, suffer'd, it w decision. Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 171. is There is no mistake; there has been no mistake;... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - 1923 - 1010 str.
...are Deaf " What, art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf ? " Henry VI. (2), III., u.. 75. " For pleasure and revenge. Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision." Troilus and Cressida, II., u., 171. " Like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears."— Vs.... | |
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Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. 
