 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...money by vile mean's: No, Cassius, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me : Was that done like Cassius ? Should... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...his fingers." Of him who says — " I had rather coin my heart. And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection." No ; the man of principles must fall before the men of expediency. He can conquer TI.] STUDIES OF SHAKSPERE.... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...raise no money by vile means : — — I had rather coin my heart And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection ! I did send To you for gold to pay my legions ; Which you denied me. Was that done like Cassias ?... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...no money by vile means. By Heaven, I had rather eoin my heart, And drop my blood for draehmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indireetion. I did send To yon for gold to pay my legions, Whieh yon denied me. Was that done like... | |
 | David Turnbull - Slave-trade - 1850 - 448 pages
...Valdez, a person of a very different character, who " Disdained To soil his fingers with base bribes, or wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection." In the first days of his government it was, no doubt, difficult for General Valdez to overthrow a system... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 670 pages
...no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me. Was that done like Cassius ? Should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...no money by vile means : By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me : Was that done like Cassius ? Should... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...no money by vile means : By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me. Was that done like Oa.c»rit ? Should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 556 pages
...no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me. Was that done like Cassius ? Should... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...money by -rile means ; No, Cassius, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me. Was that done like Cassius ? Should... | |
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By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. 
