 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 426 pages
...interest of France, we have made a ' very strange choice of situations in which to do f mischief. " But trifles light as air, " Are to the jealous confirmations strong, !' As proofs of holy writ." — f I arn, &c. ' JOSEPH PRIESTLEY; Before I begin my remarks, I must not forget to caution the reader... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1801 - 436 pages
...innocent attentions of a cafual admirer are fufficient to ftir up the wildeft furies of a jealous mind: Trifles, light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. A jealous hufband hunts after every found, liftens with trembling apprehenfion to every whifper that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...expressed the nature of jealousy in those lines which, on this occasion, he puts into the mouth of lago : Trifles light as air Are to the Jealous confirmations strong, As proofs of Holy Writ. It would be easy for a tasteless critic to turn any of the beauties I have here mentioned into ridicule... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 380 pages
...expressed the nature of jealousy in those lines, which, on this occasion, he puts into the mouth of lago, ' Trifles light as air Are to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ." It would be easy for a tasteless critic to turn any of the beauties I have here mentioned into ridicule... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...for itGo, lea.ve 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...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 Moot already changes with my poison: — Dangerous conceits are, in their... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 496 pages
...The greatest genius the world hath ever produced, observes in one of his most excellent plays, that Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs ot' holy writ. That Mr. Booth began to be possessed by this worst of fiends, admits, I think, no longer... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 562 pages
...it. 20 Go, leave me. [Exit ALmil. 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 chances with my poison: — Dangerous conceits are, ш their... | |
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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. 
