The Shakespeare Phrase BookLittle, Brown,, 1881 - 1034 pages |
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... Venice , ii . 6 . .3 Henry II . iv . 7 . 2 Henry VI . iv . 7 . Hamlet , iii . 2 . i . 3 . iii . 3 . ' Tis not so above ; There is no shuffling , there the action lies In his true nature . ABRAHAM . - Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul ...
... Venice , ii . 6 . .3 Henry II . iv . 7 . 2 Henry VI . iv . 7 . Hamlet , iii . 2 . i . 3 . iii . 3 . ' Tis not so above ; There is no shuffling , there the action lies In his true nature . ABRAHAM . - Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul ...
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... Venice , i . 1 . 1 Henry IV . iii . 2 . of the Shrew , i . 2 . Richard III . i . 1 . Tam . Searching of thy wound , I have by hard adventure found mine own Of your royal presence I'll adventure The borrow of a week . ADVENTURING ...
... Venice , i . 1 . 1 Henry IV . iii . 2 . of the Shrew , i . 2 . Richard III . i . 1 . Tam . Searching of thy wound , I have by hard adventure found mine own Of your royal presence I'll adventure The borrow of a week . ADVENTURING ...
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... Venice , i . 1 . Othello , v . 2 . Merry Wives , iii . 5 . . Richard III . v . 3 . Othello , i . 3 . Richard III . i . 1 . Othello , ii . 3 . V. 2 . Henry V. iii . 5 . King Lear , iii . 2 . Julius Cæsar , i . 3 . Mer , of Venice , ii ...
... Venice , i . 1 . Othello , v . 2 . Merry Wives , iii . 5 . . Richard III . v . 3 . Othello , i . 3 . Richard III . i . 1 . Othello , ii . 3 . V. 2 . Henry V. iii . 5 . King Lear , iii . 2 . Julius Cæsar , i . 3 . Mer , of Venice , ii ...
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... Venice , iii . 2 . O that I were a fool ! I am ambitious for a motley coat . O'ercome with pride , ambitious past all thinking , Self - loving . As he was valiant , I honour him : but , as he was ambitious , I slew him But Brutus says ...
... Venice , iii . 2 . O that I were a fool ! I am ambitious for a motley coat . O'ercome with pride , ambitious past all thinking , Self - loving . As he was valiant , I honour him : but , as he was ambitious , I slew him But Brutus says ...
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... Venice , iii . 4 . King John , iii . 1 . Troi . and Cress . ii . 3 . King Lear , ii . 4 . v . 3 . Cymbeline , i . 5 . The amity that wisdom knits not , folly may easily untie How , in one house , Should many people , under two commands ...
... Venice , iii . 4 . King John , iii . 1 . Troi . and Cress . ii . 3 . King Lear , ii . 4 . v . 3 . Cymbeline , i . 5 . The amity that wisdom knits not , folly may easily untie How , in one house , Should many people , under two commands ...
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All's bear beauty better blood breath Cleo cold comes Coriolanus Cress Cymbeline death deeds devil doth Dream earth Errors eyes face fair fall fault fear fellow fire fool fortune friends give grace grief grow Hamlet hand hast hath head hear heart heaven Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII hold honour hope hour Julius Cæsar keep kind King John King Lear leave light live look Lost Love's Love's L Macbeth man's means Meas Merry Wives mind nature never Night Othello poor Richard Richard II Romeo and Juliet Shrew sleep soul speak spirit stand sweet tell Tempest thee thing thou thou art thought Timon of Athens tongue Troi true turn Twelfth Night Venice Verona Winter's Tale
Popular passages
Page 83 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me, My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 157 - And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
Page 344 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 474 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear. The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 475 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 330 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. Strange things I have in head that will to hand, Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
Page 371 - Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o
Page 296 - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 304 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 12 - I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? FIRST CLO. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.