The Shakespeare Phrase BookLittle, Brown,, 1881 - 1034 pages |
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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 Othello pale patience Pericles poor Prol Richard Richard III 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 81 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me, My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 155 - And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
Page 342 - 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 472 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear. The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 473 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 328 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. Strange things I have in head that will to hand, Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
Page 369 - Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o
Page 294 - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 302 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 12 - 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? FIRST CLO. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.