The Shakespeare Phrase BookLittle, Brown,, 1881 - 1034 pages |
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... turns vice , being misapplied ; And vice sometimes by action dignified Rom . & Jul . ii . 3 . Macbeth , iv . 2 ... turn awry , And lose the name of action Seit the action to the word , the word to the action ; with this special ...
... turns vice , being misapplied ; And vice sometimes by action dignified Rom . & Jul . ii . 3 . Macbeth , iv . 2 ... turn awry , And lose the name of action Seit the action to the word , the word to the action ; with this special ...
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... turn and wind a fiery Pegasus This bottle makes an angel . - An if it do , take it for thy labour . There is a good angel about him ; but the devil outbids him too . Consideration , like an angel , came And whipped the offending Adam ...
... turn and wind a fiery Pegasus This bottle makes an angel . - An if it do , take it for thy labour . There is a good angel about him ; but the devil outbids him too . Consideration , like an angel , came And whipped the offending Adam ...
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... turn the tide of fearful faction . In action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god ! In this brainish ... turns . I know thy constellation is right apt For this affair Love's L. Lost , i . 2 . ii . 1 . Tam . of the Shrew ...
... turn the tide of fearful faction . In action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god ! In this brainish ... turns . I know thy constellation is right apt For this affair Love's L. Lost , i . 2 . ii . 1 . Tam . of the Shrew ...
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... turn ass , Leaving his wealth and ease . I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry As affectioned ass , that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths Come , you virtuous ass , you bashful fool , must you be blushing ...
... turn ass , Leaving his wealth and ease . I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry As affectioned ass , that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths Come , you virtuous ass , you bashful fool , must you be blushing ...
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... turn all beauty into thoughts of harm Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty ? My beauty , though but mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praise Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye , Not uttered by base ...
... turn all beauty into thoughts of harm Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty ? My beauty , though but mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praise Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye , Not uttered by base ...
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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