Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon |
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... KATH . V. , 2 . B Both our inventions meet and jump in one . - Tra . I. , 1 . Better once than never , for never too late . — PET . √ . , 1 . H He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.— WID . V. , 2 . I If the boy hath not a ...
... KATH . V. , 2 . B Both our inventions meet and jump in one . - Tra . I. , 1 . Better once than never , for never too late . — PET . √ . , 1 . H He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.— WID . V. , 2 . I If the boy hath not a ...
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... KATH . II . , 1 . He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument . - HOL . V. , 1 . J Justice always whirls in equal measure . - BIRON , IV . , 3 . L Let fame , that all hunt after in their lives , live ...
... KATH . II . , 1 . He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument . - HOL . V. , 1 . J Justice always whirls in equal measure . - BIRON , IV . , 3 . L Let fame , that all hunt after in their lives , live ...
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... KATH . III . , 1 . All goodness is poison to thy stomach . - WOL . III . , 2 . Affairs , that walk ( as , they say , spirits do , ) at mid- night , have in them a wilder nature , than the business that seeks despatch by day . - GAR . V ...
... KATH . III . , 1 . All goodness is poison to thy stomach . - WOL . III . , 2 . Affairs , that walk ( as , they say , spirits do , ) at mid- night , have in them a wilder nature , than the business that seeks despatch by day . - GAR . V ...
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... KATH . III . , 1 . Be just , and fear not . - WOL . III . , 2 . C Corruption wins not more than honesty . - WOL . III . , 2 . F Farewell , a long farewell , to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; To - day he puts forth the ...
... KATH . III . , 1 . Be just , and fear not . - WOL . III . , 2 . C Corruption wins not more than honesty . - WOL . III . , 2 . F Farewell , a long farewell , to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; To - day he puts forth the ...
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... KATH . III . , 2 . He has strangled his language in his tears . - K . HEN . V. , 1 . I I am richer than my base accusers , that never knew what truth meant . - BUCK . II . , 1 . I have perus'd her well . - CHAM . II . , 3 . I should be ...
... KATH . III . , 2 . He has strangled his language in his tears . - K . HEN . V. , 1 . I I am richer than my base accusers , that never knew what truth meant . - BUCK . II . , 1 . I have perus'd her well . - CHAM . II . , 3 . I should be ...
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Alongo art thou bear beauty better blows bosom breath clouds Clown cowards CYMBELINE death deeds doth Duke ears earth eyes fair faults fear fight for love fire fool fortune gentle give grace grief grow hate hath hear heart heaven Hecuba Helena Hermia honour Iach iron tongue KATH King Benry Laer live look lord lov'd love's Lysander MERCHANT OF VENICE MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind moon nature ne'er never night noble o'er offence Olivia patience pity play poor Portia praise Queen RICH RYDE Scene shew shine Sir Toby sleep smile sorrow soul speak spirit strong sweet sweetest things tears thee There's thine thing thou art thought tongue true truth TWELFTH NIGHT unto valour Viola virtue vows wear weep what's wild Thyme wind woman words
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Page 122 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 130 - Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once...
Page 61 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 135 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 61 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 165 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 96 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 148 - To do our country loss ; and if to live, The fewer men the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold ; Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear ; Such outward things...
Page 72 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 131 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...