The Shakespeare Phrase BookLittle, Brown,, 1881 - 1034 pages |
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... better part of man !. ACCUSATION . — My place i ' the state Will so your accusation overweigh Be you constant in the accusation , and my cunning shall not shame me With public accusation , uncovered slander , unmitigated rancour What I ...
... better part of man !. ACCUSATION . — My place i ' the state Will so your accusation overweigh Be you constant in the accusation , and my cunning shall not shame me With public accusation , uncovered slander , unmitigated rancour What I ...
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... better satisfied How in our means we should advance ourselves . ADVANCEMENT . You envy my advancement and my friends ' . Do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee ? His own disorders Deserved much less ...
... better satisfied How in our means we should advance ourselves . ADVANCEMENT . You envy my advancement and my friends ' . Do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee ? His own disorders Deserved much less ...
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... better compassing of his salt and most hidden loose affection The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship . AFFINED . The artist and unread , The hard and soft , seem all affined and kin Troi , and Cress . i ...
... better compassing of his salt and most hidden loose affection The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship . AFFINED . The artist and unread , The hard and soft , seem all affined and kin Troi , and Cress . i ...
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... better For being a little bad . • Hamlet , ii . 2 . Meas . for Meas . iii . 2 . Merry Wives , iv . 1 . x Henry IV . ii . 1 . Meas . for Meas . v . 1 . He wants wit that wants resolved will To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better ...
... better For being a little bad . • Hamlet , ii . 2 . Meas . for Meas . iii . 2 . Merry Wives , iv . 1 . x Henry IV . ii . 1 . Meas . for Meas . v . 1 . He wants wit that wants resolved will To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better ...
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... better than he loves our house 2 Henry VI . iii . 2 . Richard III . iii . 7 . iv . 4- Romeo and Juliet , iii . 5 . iii . 5- v . 3- Timon of Athens , iv . 2 . Julius Cæsar , v . I. Macbeth , i . 3 . Hamlet , iv . 3 . Othello , ii . 1 . 1 ...
... better than he loves our house 2 Henry VI . iii . 2 . Richard III . iii . 7 . iv . 4- Romeo and Juliet , iii . 5 . iii . 5- v . 3- Timon of Athens , iv . 2 . Julius Cæsar , v . I. Macbeth , i . 3 . Hamlet , iv . 3 . Othello , ii . 1 . 1 ...
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All's bear beauty better blood bosom brain breath brow cheek Cleo cold Coriolanus Cress Cymbeline death deeds devil dost doth Dream earth Errors eyes face fair fault fear fire fool fortune friends gentle give grace grief Hamlet hand hang hate hath hear heart heaven hell Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII honest honour hour judgement Julius Cæsar King John King Lear kiss knave lips live look lord Lost Love's Macbeth man's Meas Merry Wives mind moon nature ne'er never noble o'er oath Othello pale patience Pericles poor Prol Richard Richard II Romeo and Juliet shame Shrew sleep sorrow soul speak spirit sweet tears tell Tempest thee There's thine thing thou art thou hast Timon of Athens Titus Andron tongue Troi Twelfth Night Venice Verona Winter's Tale words
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Page 457 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind...
Page 184 - O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Page 413 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 346 - 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 420 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 493 - 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 dwell not in my desires : But, if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 242 - em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes ; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
Page 366 - I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 360 - One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she 's dead. Ham. How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years 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?
Page 469 - For, get you gone, she doth not mean, away: Flatter, and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say, they have angels