Help me out remembering that couplet:
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Where is this poem from?
Does the heaven line come before or after the hell line? I mean, did I get the first halves of the lines mixed up?
Shouldn’t the last word by “spurn’d” so it would rhyme with “turn’d”? (I also think it makes more sense; in my experience, women get madder at being rejected than at being ridiculed. Just my two bits.)
Nothing I write about any person or group should be applied to a larger group.
I think I can help…
If I’m not mistaken, the quote you’re refering to is actually,
The two lines are the concluding lines of William Congreve’s The Mourning Bride, Act III, Scene 8, and were written a tad over 300 years ago, in 1697.
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Life is a tapestry.
Each new day brings with it the opportunity to sew by
word and deed within the heart of someone around us.
Let us choose our colors with care.
No. Shakespeare.
YO-HO, ME HEARTIES! ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR THE MUSICAL BATTLE AT SEA!
Could you elaborate, just a little bit, Mr. Bostaph?
Mr. Palinor’s posting is quite correct and I can find no similar quotation from Shakespeare.
Tom~
those particular lines by Congreve are often misquoted and attributed to Shakespeare and Milton and who knows who else. To my knowledge this is just a case of misquoting.
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