Coriolanus

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Clarendon Press, 1879 - 256 pages
 

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Page 206 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself.
Page 6 - Deserves your hate ; and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours swims with fins of lead And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye ? With every minute you do change a mind, And call him noble that was now your hate, Him vile that was your garland.
Page 176 - I hear a knocking At the south entry : retire we to our chamber : A little water clears us of this deed : How easy is it, then ! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.
Page 130 - I shall promulgate,) I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege ; and my demerits May speak, unbonneted, to as proud a fortune As this that I have reach'd...
Page 100 - I melt, and am not Of stronger earth than others. — My mother bows ; As if Olympus to a molehill should In supplication nod ; and my young boy Hath an aspect of intercession, which Great nature cries, Deny not.
Page 238 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 250 - As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women, committed them to prison.
Page xxxi - For ill-favouredly muffled and disguised as he was, yet there appeared a certain majesty in his countenance and in his silence: whereupon they went to Tullus, who was at supper, to tell him of the strange disguising of this man. Tullus rose presently from the board, and coming towards him, asked him what he was, and wherefore he came. Then...
Page 187 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 208 - Besides, (I have not since put up my sword,) Against the Capitol I met a lion, Who glared upon me, and went surly by Without annoying me : and there were drawn Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women, Transformed with their fear; who swore they saw Men all in fire walk up and down the streets. And, yesterday, the bird of night did sit, Even at noon-day, upon the market-place, Hooting and shrieking.

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