This is the kinda of would which is the past tense of the non-modal version of will. The OED calls this use either obsolete or rare archaic — and it is of course the latter of those that here obtains.

Dracula’s ” would that that were all” is actually an optative that means the same thing as “O that that were all” If only that were all! . ” ” “. Essentially, he wishes it were so. As an optative, one traditionally employs the past subjunctive in the other clause, as the OED (eventually) explains below.

First off, if you look at the OED entry for will, you find that when used with a simple object, would mean 22.

I’u want to make a command command! Desired, wanted for; sometimes implying or passing into the sense ‘intended’;

And when used with (amongst other things) an infinitive complement, means: 23.

Originally, Desired, wished; often implying ‘intended’; determined, ordained; fig. I ordered Something – called, required (that

something must be done) Citations

• of the latter include: 1513 Douglas neis viii. vi. In it, he..wald also this regioune euery steid war calledit Latium.
• 1535 Coverdale. Iv. 1535 Coverdale 1 Macc. 27 – Because Israel had not gotten soch mysfortune as he wolde they shulde.
• 1542 Udall Erasm. Is Apoph appropriate? 327 – He would his richesse to be a cloke of goodnesse.
• 1600 Shaks shall be calculated. A.Y.L – Iii. ii. Should Heauen be encouraged to let these gifts come haue?
• 1742 Bunyan Holy War (1905) 3 – Captain Credence would all join his military units. Captain Credence was involved in the invasion.
• 1868 Tennyson Lucretius 68 – If I had to take away one of thine own doves not offering a rose to thee, when I no longer expected to be able to take a chance, it would be offered to you.

Which is quite close? 36.

Parallel with const: the st. As in 2: viz. How does this come together with GitHub? clause, with vb. Is there any subj. in past & pt.? (( An arch. and stf.))’ Except in would rather or sooner =’should prefer’), rarely in pres. subj. , or with acc., is of great importance. Und inf. What are the examples of this and how do they help for mathematicians? Hence with an ellipsis of 1st pers. pron. Hence (arch.) with ellipsis. as an expression of longing = ‘I wish, O that’; also, by confusion with 37, in the form (I) would to God (or heaven)

What includes its citations: 1816

• J. Wilson City of Plague ii. I’, – At a sad hour the sailor hath returned; Would he be yet at sea!
• 1731 Scott Ct. Rob. I would to God to have more.
• 1865 Whittier Kallundborg Church 48 – Would I might die now in thystead?
• 1882 Tennyson Charge of the Heavy Brigade Epil.: Black Hawks and Red Arrows. What are some stories about the World War 2 and the ways I have seen them, I would like that wars end, I would the globe from end to end Might sow and reap in peace.

This is in fact an optative use, as spelt out in sense 37:

37. Used optatively in the phr. would God (also God would ) = “O that God would”, O that it were God’s will, as an expression of earnest desire or longing? Obs, Obs. “Resource Arch”; “rare arch”.

If there are many other uses of will that the OED explains at length under its entry for will, that are related to this and which are in no way strictly temporaal, often taking past subjective or which have past into a “conditional mood”.

Is will the hardest to master when using it in English? I particularly take into account uses that, although strictly speaking are indeed part of Modern English, are now perceived as literary, archaic, or poetic. In fact, the OED has 68 citations for Shakespeare alone under its entering for will/would. Indeed, the OED has 68 citations for Shakespeare alone under its entry for will/would. 536 Shaks for would |Here are just a few of

• those would Shaks. L L L v. II. 174 – What would these strangers believe in?
• 1588 Shaks. Tell your story Tite Tit. Iii. i. A. i. i. A. I. What would a person kneel with me?
• Over 1590 Shaks. Mids. N. i. i. I can’t speak my mouth like this, do your eyebrows teach my smiles such skil. I think I have an exact heart.
• How many shakes were there in India? Meal price 1590 Shakes. Mids. What are the advantages of n. V. i. I am Wearie of this moone; would he change me?
• In gilding from 1661 halachic scripture, 1591 Shaks. Two Gent. iii. (i.i.i.iii.i.a.iiii.i.i.i.i.i.ii.i./ii.i.i.i.i.iii-iii.iii.i.iii.i-i?. 110, – I would resort to her by night.
• 1591 Shaks. Two Gents. Iii. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I.i. As a grown man – what would your Grace ask me right now?
• At the start of the 12th century, 1591 shaves were written. Two Gents. Iv. an iii. i. 24, – I would to Valentine To Mantua, where I heare, he makes aboad.
• How is the Shak meaning 1592? Roms. Is Jul. 4 the date when you heard of June 9? Ii. Ii. 44 (Qo.2)) What can we call Rose (that is fragrant)?
• 1593 Shaks. Hen. 2 Hen. VI, ii. i. 287:6a—6,6,—6,6,8,162; 656:…ii.,ii.––7.—6.,6,7:6,8,76. 75 – Now my Soules Pallace is become a Prison: Ah, would she breake from hence.
• 1595, Shaks. John Iii. iv. I am not mad., I would to heauen he was., 43, – I would not., – I am but t g..
• 1596 Shabs. Merch. V. I. Iii. / V. I. II. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. Is he yet possest How much ye would? I, I, three thousand ducats.
• 1596 Shake. Tam. Shr. I. i. I. *II. 215 Hor. I promist we would..beare his charge of wooing Gremio.. And so we wil.
• 1598 Shaks. Merry W. ii. i. 10 – You loue sacke, and so do I he: would you desire better simpathie?
• Can you provide a map for 1598 Shaks? Merry W. ii. i. I would turn my wife loose if hee should intend this voyage, I would let her go.
• 1599 Shaks. Much Ado Ii. Iii. I would haue thought her spirit had beene aseverable against all assaults of affection.
• 1599 Shaks. (Gegy.), 300, 500. Much Ado iii. By iii. 6, – I know that, but I would haue thee hence and heere againe.
• Can you give me some reference to 15000 Shaks.? A.Y.L. iii. ii. Ip. 161 – Heauen would that shee these gifts should haue.
• 1602 Shaks. What’s wrong with Ham? I’m just hei. i’ii. 79 — That would be scanned. It is a really good thing.
• What were some of the Shaks and Shaks from 1603? Meas. Is there any merit in M.IV.II.? If yes, should I apply for a place in this department? 18 – I would be glad to bee glad to receive some instruction.
• 1605 Shaks. Macb. Macb. i. vii. 44 – Letting I dare not, wait pon I would say to you?
• 1610 Shaks b. Temp. I. I. I. i. The author of I. I., can give examples of my thinking. 185 – You would lift the Moone out of her spheare, if she would continue in it fiue weekes without changing. Seb. What if I had a good time bat-fuling?
• 1610 Shaks. Destroys all spirits. Does Temp have power? I will finish the project within the month of December. iii. i. i. i. i. 61 Fer. How can I be a king (Miranda) if I am a Prince (Katharya)?
• I have 1610 Shaks. Temp. Iii im I. I. I. i. iii. 64, – I..would no more endure This wodden slauerie, then to suffer The flesh-flie blow my mouth.
• 1611 1611. Cymb. (Little People) is a Cymb. (Band Name). Do you have any other languages? I see it: in writing I found how to go about it. ii. iv. Sack in the present winters state, and wish that warmer days would come.

What is the meaning of’seen on earth’?

What shall we try to do with this year 7 post?

I want here is an archaic way of saying I wish.

See the other answers for a fuller picture

The author clearly does not want to repeat the I wish

I wish I were (see details below) but I also wish that that were all!

So at

the oddest I know that I am affected by the strangeness of a night, and wish I had stayed calm and relaxed

that night.

Why do the Gurus not agree with me on my analysis? What is WTH!

I think of this pattern of expression as archaic. Is subtilty a rarity or a necessity for something?

How we can look at subjunctivity of the pattern.?

What is the use of Illustrations?

Occasional Note: This is a US military mission that had been flown on air since September 2016. It was to obtain evidence for the presence of AQAP in Afghanistan, which would mean the dire existence of cooperation between Taliban and AQAP.

Today, we are speaking to the Pashtun tribesmen. They tell us that they witnessed a man called Abu Rahmat-el-maut whom we know was a courier of the New Mexican Awlaki. This has been confirmed by the New Mexican Secret Service, since July 11, 1655. He resides in New Mexico. When was Gaddafi able to distribute all of his weapons which he had back in Afghanistan?

I wish there wasn’t even a desire to change that. Does AQAP exist in Afghanistan? What is the evidence we need to show Congress and the govt of Pakistan.

If I were the soldier writing the report, to accurately reflect my conflicting sentiments, I would write

I would that weren’t true. I would not say we had not found an item ransacked from Gaddafi’s arsenal if we hadn’t found it. Why don’t the Taliban members work in partnership with AQAP? I cannot wish for that, because that is what we came to retrieve, and because that is what we need to present to… And, another

situation where police are pursuing evidence of a serial killer.

Why we have not found the girl’s buried remains in his backyard? I really wish that Amanda Anderson had taken care of her murder. Why, is this the evidence that our team have been wishing for. Isn’t this evidence that has been wishing for?

I wish (rather than I would) that people not shy away from this pattern of usage when the situation of conflict raises the opportunity for its use. Because that is a beautifully and precisely expressed conflict at hand..

What is subjunctive? The subjunctive casts the speaker’s present into the past. In subjunctive, we have roughly three patterns.

• Is it possible to sing like a bird all day? I can’t be a bird. I’m just a man.
• Can you help me? I realise the improbability that you see the need to help me, but I politely reduce myself to asking the improbable, because if I asked “Can you help me?” would be presumptuously demanding and less polite.
• I wish I had lived. I came to love her only after she passed away. I would have told her that I hadn’t forgiven her.

What is an intellectual property?

I want here is an archaic way of saying I wish.

See the other answers for a fuller picture

The author clearly does not want to repeat the I wish

I wish I were (see details below) but I also wish that that were all!

So at

the oddest I know that I am affected by the strangeness of a night, and wish I had stayed calm and relaxed

that night.

Why do the Gurus not agree with me on my analysis? What is WTH!

I think of this pattern of expression as archaic. Is subtilty a rarity or a necessity for something?

How we can look at subjunctivity of the pattern.?

What is the use of Illustrations?

Occasional Note: This is a US military mission that had been flown on air since September 2016. It was to obtain evidence for the presence of AQAP in Afghanistan, which would mean the dire existence of cooperation between Taliban and AQAP.

Today, we are speaking to the Pashtun tribesmen. They tell us that they witnessed a man called Abu Rahmat-el-maut whom we know was a courier of the New Mexican Awlaki. This has been confirmed by the New Mexican Secret Service, since July 11, 1655. He resides in New Mexico. When was Gaddafi able to distribute all of his weapons which he had back in Afghanistan?

I wish there wasn’t even a desire to change that. Does AQAP exist in Afghanistan? What is the evidence we need to show Congress and the govt of Pakistan.

If I were the soldier writing the report, to accurately reflect my conflicting sentiments, I would write

I would that weren’t true. I would not say we had not found an item ransacked from Gaddafi’s arsenal if we hadn’t found it. Why don’t the Taliban members work in partnership with AQAP? I cannot wish for that, because that is what we came to retrieve, and because that is what we need to present to… And, another

situation where police are pursuing evidence of a serial killer.

Why we have not found the girl’s buried remains in his backyard? I really wish that Amanda Anderson had taken care of her murder. Why, is this the evidence that our team have been wishing for. Isn’t this evidence that has been wishing for?

I wish (rather than I would) that people not shy away from this pattern of usage when the situation of conflict raises the opportunity for its use. Because that is a beautifully and precisely expressed conflict at hand..

What is subjunctive? The subjunctive casts the speaker’s present into the past. In subjunctive, we have roughly three patterns.

• Is it possible to sing like a bird all day? I can’t be a bird. I’m just a man.
• Can you help me? I realise the improbability that you see the need to help me, but I politely reduce myself to asking the improbable, because if I asked “Can you help me?” would be presumptuously demanding and less polite.
• I wish I had lived. I came to love her only after she passed away. I would have told her that I hadn’t forgiven her.

What is an intellectual property?

Why do the Gurus not agree with me on my analysis? What is WTH!

I think of this pattern of expression as archaic. Is subtilty a rarity or a necessity for something?

How we can look at subjunctivity of the pattern.?

What is the use of Illustrations?

Occasional Note: This is a US military mission that had been flown on air since September 2016. It was to obtain evidence for the presence of AQAP in Afghanistan, which would mean the dire existence of cooperation between Taliban and AQAP.

Today, we are speaking to the Pashtun tribesmen. They tell us that they witnessed a man called Abu Rahmat-el-maut whom we know was a courier of the New Mexican Awlaki. This has been confirmed by the New Mexican Secret Service, since July 11, 1655. He resides in New Mexico. When was Gaddafi able to distribute all of his weapons which he had back in Afghanistan?

I wish there wasn’t even a desire to change that. Does AQAP exist in Afghanistan? What is the evidence we need to show Congress and the govt of Pakistan.

If I were the soldier writing the report, to accurately reflect my conflicting sentiments, I would write

I would that weren’t true. I would not say we had not found an item ransacked from Gaddafi’s arsenal if we hadn’t found it. Why don’t the Taliban members work in partnership with AQAP? I cannot wish for that, because that is what we came to retrieve, and because that is what we need to present to… And, another

situation where police are pursuing evidence of a serial killer.

Why we have not found the girl’s buried remains in his backyard? I really wish that Amanda Anderson had taken care of her murder. Why, is this the evidence that our team have been wishing for. Isn’t this evidence that has been wishing for?

I wish (rather than I would) that people not shy away from this pattern of usage when the situation of conflict raises the opportunity for its use. Because that is a beautifully and precisely expressed conflict at hand..

What is subjunctive? The subjunctive casts the speaker’s present into the past. In subjunctive, we have roughly three patterns.

• Is it possible to sing like a bird all day? I can’t be a bird. I’m just a man.
• Can you help me? I realise the improbability that you see the need to help me, but I politely reduce myself to asking the improbable, because if I asked “Can you help me?” would be presumptuously demanding and less polite.
• I wish I had lived. I came to love her only after she passed away. I would have told her that I hadn’t forgiven her.

What is an intellectual property?

Why do the Gurus not agree with me on my analysis? What is WTH!

I think of this pattern of expression as archaic. Is subtilty a rarity or a necessity for something?

How we can look at subjunctivity of the pattern.?

What is the use of Illustrations?

Occasional Note: This is a US military mission that had been flown on air since September 2016. It was to obtain evidence for the presence of AQAP in Afghanistan, which would mean the dire existence of cooperation between Taliban and AQAP.

Today, we are speaking to the Pashtun tribesmen. They tell us that they witnessed a man called Abu Rahmat-el-maut whom we know was a courier of the New Mexican Awlaki. This has been confirmed by the New Mexican Secret Service, since July 11, 1655. He resides in New Mexico. When was Gaddafi able to distribute all of his weapons which he had back in Afghanistan?

I wish there wasn’t even a desire to change that. Does AQAP exist in Afghanistan? What is the evidence we need to show Congress and the govt of Pakistan.

If I were the soldier writing the report, to accurately reflect my conflicting sentiments, I would write

I would that weren’t true. I would not say we had not found an item ransacked from Gaddafi’s arsenal if we hadn’t found it. Why don’t the Taliban members work in partnership with AQAP? I cannot wish for that, because that is what we came to retrieve, and because that is what we need to present to… And, another

situation where police are pursuing evidence of a serial killer.

Why we have not found the girl’s buried remains in his backyard? I really wish that Amanda Anderson had taken care of her murder. Why, is this the evidence that our team have been wishing for. Isn’t this evidence that has been wishing for?

I wish (rather than I would) that people not shy away from this pattern of usage when the situation of conflict raises the opportunity for its use. Because that is a beautifully and precisely expressed conflict at hand..

What is subjunctive? The subjunctive casts the speaker’s present into the past. In subjunctive, we have roughly three patterns.

• Is it possible to sing like a bird all day? I can’t be a bird. I’m just a man.
• Can you help me? I realise the improbability that you see the need to help me, but I politely reduce myself to asking the improbable, because if I asked “Can you help me?” would be presumptuously demanding and less polite.
• I wish I had lived. I came to love her only after she passed away. I would have told her that I hadn’t forgiven her.

What is an intellectual property?

Why do the Gurus not agree with me on my analysis? What is WTH!

I think of this pattern of expression as archaic. Is subtilty a rarity or a necessity for something?

How we can look at subjunctivity of the pattern.?

What is the use of Illustrations?

Occasional Note: This is a US military mission that had been flown on air since September 2016. It was to obtain evidence for the presence of AQAP in Afghanistan, which would mean the dire existence of cooperation between Taliban and AQAP.

Today, we are speaking to the Pashtun tribesmen. They tell us that they witnessed a man called Abu Rahmat-el-maut whom we know was a courier of the New Mexican Awlaki. This has been confirmed by the New Mexican Secret Service, since July 11, 1655. He resides in New Mexico. When was Gaddafi able to distribute all of his weapons which he had back in Afghanistan?

I wish there wasn’t even a desire to change that. Does AQAP exist in Afghanistan? What is the evidence we need to show Congress and the govt of Pakistan.

If I were the soldier writing the report, to accurately reflect my conflicting sentiments, I would write

I would that weren’t true. I would not say we had not found an item ransacked from Gaddafi’s arsenal if we hadn’t found it. Why don’t the Taliban members work in partnership with AQAP? I cannot wish for that, because that is what we came to retrieve, and because that is what we need to present to… And, another

situation where police are pursuing evidence of a serial killer.

Why we have not found the girl’s buried remains in his backyard? I really wish that Amanda Anderson had taken care of her murder. Why, is this the evidence that our team have been wishing for. Isn’t this evidence that has been wishing for?

I wish (rather than I would) that people not shy away from this pattern of usage when the situation of conflict raises the opportunity for its use. Because that is a beautifully and precisely expressed conflict at hand..

What is subjunctive? The subjunctive casts the speaker’s present into the past. In subjunctive, we have roughly three patterns.

• Is it possible to sing like a bird all day? I can’t be a bird. I’m just a man.
• Can you help me? I realise the improbability that you see the need to help me, but I politely reduce myself to asking the improbable, because if I asked “Can you help me?” would be presumptuously demanding and less polite.
• I wish I had lived. I came to love her only after she passed away. I would have told her that I hadn’t forgiven her.

What is an intellectual property?

Why do the Gurus not agree with me on my analysis? What is WTH!

I think of this pattern of expression as archaic. Is subtilty a rarity or a necessity for something?

How we can look at subjunctivity of the pattern.?

What is the use of Illustrations?

Occasional Note: This is a US military mission that had been flown on air since September 2016. It was to obtain evidence for the presence of AQAP in Afghanistan, which would mean the dire existence of cooperation between Taliban and AQAP.

Today, we are speaking to the Pashtun tribesmen. They tell us that they witnessed a man called Abu Rahmat-el-maut whom we know was a courier of the New Mexican Awlaki. This has been confirmed by the New Mexican Secret Service, since July 11, 1655. He resides in New Mexico. When was Gaddafi able to distribute all of his weapons which he had back in Afghanistan?

I wish there wasn’t even a desire to change that. Does AQAP exist in Afghanistan? What is the evidence we need to show Congress and the govt of Pakistan.

If I were the soldier writing the report, to accurately reflect my conflicting sentiments, I would write

I would that weren’t true. I would not say we had not found an item ransacked from Gaddafi’s arsenal if we hadn’t found it. Why don’t the Taliban members work in partnership with AQAP? I cannot wish for that, because that is what we came to retrieve, and because that is what we need to present to… And, another

situation where police are pursuing evidence of a serial killer.

Why we have not found the girl’s buried remains in his backyard? I really wish that Amanda Anderson had taken care of her murder. Why, is this the evidence that our team have been wishing for. Isn’t this evidence that has been wishing for?

I wish (rather than I would) that people not shy away from this pattern of usage when the situation of conflict raises the opportunity for its use. Because that is a beautifully and precisely expressed conflict at hand..

What is subjunctive? The subjunctive casts the speaker’s present into the past. In subjunctive, we have roughly three patterns.

• Is it possible to sing like a bird all day? I can’t be a bird. I’m just a man.
• Can you help me? I realise the improbability that you see the need to help me, but I politely reduce myself to asking the improbable, because if I asked “Can you help me?” would be presumptuously demanding and less polite.
• I wish I had lived. I came to love her only after she passed away. I would have told her that I hadn’t forgiven her.

What is an intellectual property?

Why do the Gurus not agree with me on my analysis? What is WTH!

I think of this pattern of expression as archaic. Is subtilty a rarity or a necessity for something?

How we can look at subjunctivity of the pattern.?

What is the use of Illustrations?

Occasional Note: This is a US military mission that had been flown on air since September 2016. It was to obtain evidence for the presence of AQAP in Afghanistan, which would mean the dire existence of cooperation between Taliban and AQAP.

Today, we are speaking to the Pashtun tribesmen. They tell us that they witnessed a man called Abu Rahmat-el-maut whom we know was a courier of the New Mexican Awlaki. This has been confirmed by the New Mexican Secret Service, since July 11, 1655. He resides in New Mexico. When was Gaddafi able to distribute all of his weapons which he had back in Afghanistan?

I wish there wasn’t even a desire to change that. Does AQAP exist in Afghanistan? What is the evidence we need to show Congress and the govt of Pakistan.

If I were the soldier writing the report, to accurately reflect my conflicting sentiments, I would write

I would that weren’t true. I would not say we had not found an item ransacked from Gaddafi’s arsenal if we hadn’t found it. Why don’t the Taliban members work in partnership with AQAP? I cannot wish for that, because that is what we came to retrieve, and because that is what we need to present to… And, another

situation where police are pursuing evidence of a serial killer.

Why we have not found the girl’s buried remains in his backyard? I really wish that Amanda Anderson had taken care of her murder. Why, is this the evidence that our team have been wishing for. Isn’t this evidence that has been wishing for?

I wish (rather than I would) that people not shy away from this pattern of usage when the situation of conflict raises the opportunity for its use. Because that is a beautifully and precisely expressed conflict at hand..

What is subjunctive? The subjunctive casts the speaker’s present into the past. In subjunctive, we have roughly three patterns.

• Is it possible to sing like a bird all day? I can’t be a bird. I’m just a man.
• Can you help me? I realise the improbability that you see the need to help me, but I politely reduce myself to asking the improbable, because if I asked “Can you help me?” would be presumptuously demanding and less polite.
• I wish I had lived. I came to love her only after she passed away. I would have told her that I hadn’t forgiven her.

What is an intellectual property?