The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price |
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... Kings , but men . 16 - iv . 2 . The king is but a man , as I am : the violet smells to him , as it doth to me ; the element shews to him , as it doth to me ; all his senses have but human con- ditions : his ceremonies laid by , in his ...
... Kings , but men . 16 - iv . 2 . The king is but a man , as I am : the violet smells to him , as it doth to me ; the element shews to him , as it doth to me ; all his senses have but human con- ditions : his ceremonies laid by , in his ...
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... Kings , and mightiest potentates , must die ; For that's the end of human misery . 171 Unwelcome news , thankless . The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell ...
... Kings , and mightiest potentates , must die ; For that's the end of human misery . 171 Unwelcome news , thankless . The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell ...
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... king can corrupt . 302 Hypocrisy . 25 - iii . 1 . O cunning enemy , that , to catch a saint , With saints dost bait thy hook ! Most dangerous Is that temptation , that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue . 303 The danger of relying ...
... king can corrupt . 302 Hypocrisy . 25 - iii . 1 . O cunning enemy , that , to catch a saint , With saints dost bait thy hook ! Most dangerous Is that temptation , that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue . 303 The danger of relying ...
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... kings . 335 Avarice . How quickly nature falls into revolt , When gold becomes her object ! For this , the foolish over - careful fathers 5 - iii . 1 . 15 - iv . 3 . Have broke their sleep with thoughts , their brains Their bones with ...
... kings . 335 Avarice . How quickly nature falls into revolt , When gold becomes her object ! For this , the foolish over - careful fathers 5 - iii . 1 . 15 - iv . 3 . Have broke their sleep with thoughts , their brains Their bones with ...
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... king , Until a king be by ; and then his state Empties itself , as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters . 9 - v . 1 . 388 Reason subdued by passion . O strange excuse ! When Reason is the bawd to Lust's abuse . 389 The judgment ...
... king , Until a king be by ; and then his state Empties itself , as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters . 9 - v . 1 . 388 Reason subdued by passion . O strange excuse ! When Reason is the bawd to Lust's abuse . 389 The judgment ...
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Page 397 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
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 130 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
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?
Page 380 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 39 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
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 113 - Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.
Page 246 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 243 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one...