The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1839 - 460 pages |
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... valour's show , and valour's worth , divide , In storms of fortune : For , in her ray and brightness , The herd hath more annoyance by the brize , * Than by the tiger : but when the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted ...
... valour's show , and valour's worth , divide , In storms of fortune : For , in her ray and brightness , The herd hath more annoyance by the brize , * Than by the tiger : but when the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted ...
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... valour preys on reason , It eats the sword it fights with . 356 Excess of grief and joy . The violence of either grief or joy 30 - iii . 11 . Their own enacturest with themselves destroy : Where joy most revels , grief doth most lament ...
... valour preys on reason , It eats the sword it fights with . 356 Excess of grief and joy . The violence of either grief or joy 30 - iii . 11 . Their own enacturest with themselves destroy : Where joy most revels , grief doth most lament ...
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... valour , but to bear . 27 - iii . 5 . 374 Jealousy . Trifles , light as air , 375 Are , to the jealous , confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ . The treasury of life , when life itself Yields to the theft . † 376 Drunkenness ...
... valour , but to bear . 27 - iii . 5 . 374 Jealousy . Trifles , light as air , 375 Are , to the jealous , confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ . The treasury of life , when life itself Yields to the theft . † 376 Drunkenness ...
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... valour's excrement , To render them redoubted . Look on Beauty , And you shall see ' tis purchased by the weight ; Which therein works a miracle in nature , Making them lightest that wear most of it : So are those crisped † snaky golden ...
... valour's excrement , To render them redoubted . Look on Beauty , And you shall see ' tis purchased by the weight ; Which therein works a miracle in nature , Making them lightest that wear most of it : So are those crisped † snaky golden ...
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... valour . 477 Hollow friends . Friendship's full of dregs : 4 - iii . 4 . Methinks , false hearts should never have sound legs , Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on court'sies . 27 - i . 2 . 478 Human imperfection . Who is so full ...
... valour . 477 Hollow friends . Friendship's full of dregs : 4 - iii . 4 . Methinks , false hearts should never have sound legs , Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on court'sies . 27 - i . 2 . 478 Human imperfection . Who is so full ...
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art thou bear beauty betimes blood blows bosom breast breath cheeks choughs danger death deeds dost doth ears earth evil eyes face fair fall false faults fear fire flatter flower folly fool fortune foul friends gentle give grace grief grow hand hath hear heart heaven honesty honour iron tongue judgment Julius Cæsar keep king live looks love's man's marriage men's mighty heart mind nature ne'er Neptune never night noble o'er passion patience pity Poems poison'd poor praise proud rage reason rich scapes Shakspeare shame sigh sing slave sleep smile sorrow soul speak spirit stamp'd stand strong sweet tears tempest thee There's thine things thou art thou hast thought tongue Treason true truth twixt ugly night unto valour vex'd vile Violent delights virtue weep wind wise words wretched younker youth
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Page 231 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls...
Page 120 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ?
Page 40 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, — wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, — By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners, that these men, — Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, — Their virtues else — be they as pure as grace, As...
Page 246 - T^EAR no more the heat o' the sun -*- Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages : Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust. Fear no more the...
Page 239 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 131 - CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed,...
Page 385 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description...
Page 397 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 45 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven's graces And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence.
Page 62 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?