The Shakespeare Phrase BookLittle, Brown,, 1881 - 1034 pages |
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... hath yet some smack of age in you All the other gifts appertinent to man , as the malice of this age shapes them That are written down old with all the characters of age -You must learn to know such slanders of the age . . Old age ...
... hath yet some smack of age in you All the other gifts appertinent to man , as the malice of this age shapes them That are written down old with all the characters of age -You must learn to know such slanders of the age . . Old age ...
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... hath pursued the story I thank God and thee ; He was the author , thou the instrument Not in confidence Of author's ... Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself Hence hath offence his quick celerity , When it is borne in high authority Meas ...
... hath pursued the story I thank God and thee ; He was the author , thou the instrument Not in confidence Of author's ... Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself Hence hath offence his quick celerity , When it is borne in high authority Meas ...
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... hath all offence sealed up I am as melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged bear Foolish curs , that run winking into the ... hath a beard is more than a youth , and he that hath no beard is less than a man Indeed , he looks younger than he ...
... hath all offence sealed up I am as melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged bear Foolish curs , that run winking into the ... hath a beard is more than a youth , and he that hath no beard is less than a man Indeed , he looks younger than he ...
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... Hath blistered her report Blistered be thy tongue For such a wish ! BLOCK . She misused me past the endurance of a block . That which here stands up Is but a quintain , a mere lifeless block The block of death , Treason's true bed and ...
... Hath blistered her report Blistered be thy tongue For such a wish ! BLOCK . She misused me past the endurance of a block . That which here stands up Is but a quintain , a mere lifeless block The block of death , Treason's true bed and ...
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... hath congealed your blood Thy blood and virtue Contend for empire in thee Whose great decision hath much blood let forth , And more thirsts after So much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea This does make some obstruction ...
... hath congealed your blood Thy blood and virtue Contend for empire in thee Whose great decision hath much blood let forth , And more thirsts after So much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea This does make some obstruction ...
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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