 | William Shakespeare - 1785
...SMALL like a woman.~\ This is from the edition of 1623, and is the true reading. Thus Lear speaking of Cordelia, " Her voice was ever soft, " Gentle and low: — an excellent thing in woman." STEEVENS. In The Midsummer Nighfs dream, Quince tells Flute, who objecls to playing a woman's part,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800
...her; now she's gone for ever! — Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'str — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in woman,- — I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. Off. 'Tis true, my lords, he did. Lear. ' Did I not,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803
...her; now she's gone for ever! — Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha ! What is't thou say'st ? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low ; an Excellent thing in woman : — I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. Off. 'Tis true, my lords, he did. Lear. Did I not,... | |
 | 1856
...all.' One of the few passages of Shakspeare which he heard or repeated with complacency was : — ' Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in woman.' Natural sweetness of tone, however, did not satisfy him either in reading or singing. One of his female... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804
...her; now she's gone for ever! — Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st ? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman : — I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. Off. Tis true, my lords, he did. Lear. Did I not,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805
...her; now she's gone for ever!— Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman : — I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. Off. 'Tis true, my lords, he did. Lear. Did I not,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805
...her; now she's gone for ever! — Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha ! What is't thou say'st ? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman: — I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. Off. 'Tis true, my lords, he did. Lear. Did I not,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806
...her; now she's gone for ever!— Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha ! What is't thou say'st? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in woman :— I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. Of. 'Tis true, my lords, he did. Lear. Did I not,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807
...her; now she's gone for ever! — Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha ! What is't thou say'st ? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in woman : — I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. Off'. Tis true, my lords, he did. Lear. Did I not,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807
...; now she's gone for ever !— Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha ! N hat is 't thou say'st? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in woman : — I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. Gent. 'Tis true, my lordi» he did. Lear. Did I not,... | |
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Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman. 
