 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 ページ
...vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. 791. Trifles, light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, • Which, at the first, are scarce found to distaste,... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1849 - 190 ページ
...operation of this is, however, trivial, compared with the delusions men impose on themselves ! Hence — " Trifles light as air, Are to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs from holy writ." What more common than to see men, with an apparent unconsciousness, not only talk... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1850 - 310 ページ
...had she known all the thoughts and feelings which passed through the mind of her sonin-law elect. " Trifles light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ." When Sir Gabriel first approached his betrothed, with his heart full of hie mo-ther's warnings, he... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1850 - 310 ページ
...had she known all the thoughts and feelings which passed through the mind of her sonin-law elect. " Trifles light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ." When Sir Gabriel first approached his betrothed, with his heart full of hie mother's warnings, he was... | |
 | 1892 - 678 ページ
...jealous rage of Henry, and it was easy to find judges ready in every way to please him by their sentence. "Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of Holy Writ." In looking through 'Old Ballad?,' by Thomas Evans (in 4 vols.), published in 1784, which seems to have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 ページ
...doubt, is—once to be resolv'd.—OTH. III., 3. 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.—OTH. III., 3. Trifles, light as air, are, to the jealous, confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.—IAGO, III., 3. There are a kind of men so loose of soul, that in their sleeps will mutter their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 ページ
...it. Go, leave me. * [Exit EMILIA. I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. This may do something. The Moor already changes with my poison. Dangerous conceits are, in their natures,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 ページ
...for it. Go, leave me. [Exit EMILIA. I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. This may do something. The Moor already changes with my poison. Dangerous conceits are, in their natures,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 ページ
...Men of intrigue. 24 Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For other's uses. DEFINITION OF JEALOUSY. Trifles, light as air, / Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. lago. Look, where he comes! [Enter Othello. Not poppy, nor mandragora,* Nor all the drowsy syrups of... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 774 ページ
...peculiar force and applicability of the quotation of the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. HILLHOUSE:) « Trifles, light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ." We ought to recollect that the question before us is not as to the existence, the extent, or the wickedness... | |
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t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ. 
