All 4 Uses of
dwell
in
The Tempest
- There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't.†
Scene 1.2 *
- There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't.†
Scene 1.2
- She that is Queen of Tunis; she that dwells Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples Can have no note, unless the sun were post— The Man i' th' Moon's too slow—till newborn chins Be rough and razorable: she that from whom We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again, And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.†
Scene 2.1 *
- Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got, And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell: But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands.†
Scene 5.1
Definitions:
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(dwell as in: It dwells in the forest.) make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)
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(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period