Geoffrey H. Hartman - Shakespeare and the Ethical Question: Leo ...
Compression of time deprives time of meaning and leaves only "a woman, a man, and a sea of spilt blood... As is the bud bit with an envious worm...
Shakespeare in American Communities
I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them,... As is the bud bit with an envious worm,... Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits...
William Shakespeare: Scene I — Infoplease.com
As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. Could we but learn from whence his...
Wm. Hazlitt - "On Living to One's Self" (1821).
The public, enlightened as they are, must have known the meaning of that... "A bud bit by an envious worm,: Ere he could spread his sweet leaves to the air...
William Hazlitt's Essay from The Spirit of the Age, "Mr. Gifford."
He garbles an author's meaning, not so much wilfully, as because it is a... 'a bud bit by an envious worm, Ere it could spread its sweet leaves to the air,...
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it... So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm,...