 | Natasha Korda - 2002 - 304 σελίδες
...the rubric of monastic "charity" and pious poverty: "If thou art rich, thou'rt poor," he preaches, "For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, / Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And Death unloads thee" (3. 1. 25-8). The subjects over whom the disguised Duke exerts... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2011 - 340 σελίδες
...Proverbial: "The end makes all equal." 45. To sue: ie, in petitioning 95 Measure for Measure ACT 3. sc. 1 That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not, For what...certain, For thy complexion shifts to strange effects 25 After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 1962 - 240 σελίδες
...4.1. a if.) His pride of accoutrement marks him the servitor, and gull.1 If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee. (Measure for Measure, 3.1.25-28) But the genuine fool is not... | |
 | William Farina - 2014 - 280 σελίδες
...hostility toward the Puritans. Carrying this idea further, the Duke pronounces: If thou art rich, thou'rt poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee [III.i.25-28]. This is an extraordinary statement if coming from... | |
 | 532 σελίδες
...that gold could not bring joy — that death and misfortune come alike to rich and poor, because : " If thou art rich thou art poor ; . For like an ass whose back with ingots bows Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee." In some of his philosophy there was... | |
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Thou art by no means valiant; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm : Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more, Thou art not thyself... 
