Life lost much of its bitterness when men had found a refuge from the storms of fate, a speedy deliverance from dotage and pain.
This conception of suicide as an euthanasia, an abridgment of the pangs of disease, and a guarantee against the dotage of age, was not confined to philosophical treatises.
Her dotage now I do begin to pity; For, meeting her of late behind the wood, Seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool, I did upbraid her and fall out with her.
Never afflict yourself to know the cause; But let his disposition have that scope That dotage gives it.
Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure.
All's not offence that indiscretion finds And dotage terms so.
He answer thus return'd: "Wherefore in dotage wanders thus thy mind, Not so accustom'd?
In the dotage of Hellenism Gemistos discovered no new principle of vitality, but returned to the speculative mysticism of the Neoplatonists.
From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ller and a show.
I saw a melancholy man wounded in the head with a sword, his brainpan broken; so long as the wound was open he was well, but when his wound was healed, his dotage returned again.
Jasonis flava coma incendit cor Medeae) will have Jason's golden hair to be the main cause of Medea's dotage on him.
Now tell me what greater dotage or blindness can there be than this in both sexes?
The common sort define it to be "a kind of dotage without a fever, having for his ordinary companions, fear and sadness, without any apparent occasion.
Miss Goodwin's adder tongue has charmed the dotage of your silly old uncle to some purpose for herself.
Every circumstance, no matter how trivial, that could be raked up and collected, was now brought together, and stamped with a character of significance, in order to establish his dotage and their fraud.
I would shee had bestowed this dotage on mee, I would haue daft all other respects, and made her halfe my selfe: I pray you tell Benedicke of it, and heare what he will say Leon.
Neuer afflict your selfe to know more of it: But let his disposition haue that scope As dotage giues it.
All's not offence that indiscretion findes, And dotage termes so Lear.
And men with false reputation of learning will contract Truth and the old will betray the senselessness of the young, and the young will betray the dotage of the old.
It is for this, O learned Rishi, by the grace of God neither all-destroying Death, nor dotage that causeth the decay of the body, hath any power over thee!
Are you phrenticke, Sir, Or what graue dotage moues you.
Are you phrenticke, Sir, Or what grauedotage moues you, to take part VVith so much villany?
It is for this, O learned Rishi, by the grace of God neither all-destroying Death, nor dotagethat causeth the decay of the body, hath any power over thee!
Building is the general weakness of old people; I have had a twitch of it myself, though certainly it is the highest absurdity, and as sure a proof of dotage as pink-coloured ribands, or even matrimony.
Whether pure holiness inspires the mind, or dotage turns his brain, is hard to find.
And however am pleased enough to see that others do see his folly and dotage as well as myself, though I believe in my mind the man in general means well.
That fair false one Whom with fond dotage you have long pursu'd Had such a father: she to whom you pay Dearer for your dishonor, than all titles Ambitious men hunt for, are worth.
Your sight now, Out of a driveling dotage he bears to me, May make him tell my husband, and undo me.
Looking back from the vantage-ground of dotage on the fought battle of life, they wonder that any one can long to be in the thick of it.
I have not quite come to the pitch of dotage of telling senile anecdotes about myself.
And though my violent dotage did transport me, Beyond those bounds, my modesty should have kept in, Though my desires were loose, from unchast art Heaven knows I am free.
Mine too he threatens; but his dotage still Would fain reserve me for his lordly will: When wearier of these fleeting charms and me, There yawns the sack--and yonder rolls the sea!
