Shakespeare Proverbs: Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a Modern InstanceChapman and Hall, 1848 - 145 páginas |
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... born gawds , Though they are made and moulded of things past , And give to dust , that is a little gilt , More laud than gilt o'er - dusted . A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man In time of ...
... born gawds , Though they are made and moulded of things past , And give to dust , that is a little gilt , More laud than gilt o'er - dusted . A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man In time of ...
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... born . Death remember'd should be like a mirror , Who tells us , life's but breath ; to trust it , error . Distribution should undo excess , And each man have enough . Diseases , desperate grown , By desperate appliance are relieved 28.
... born . Death remember'd should be like a mirror , Who tells us , life's but breath ; to trust it , error . Distribution should undo excess , And each man have enough . Diseases , desperate grown , By desperate appliance are relieved 28.
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... Or edge aside from the direct forthright , Like to an enter'd tide , they all rush by , And leave you hindmost . Every time Serves for the matter that is then born in ' t . Every true man's apparel fits your thief . Extremity is 32.
... Or edge aside from the direct forthright , Like to an enter'd tide , they all rush by , And leave you hindmost . Every time Serves for the matter that is then born in ' t . Every true man's apparel fits your thief . Extremity is 32.
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... sects and factions were newly born . ICH honesty dwells , like a miser , in a poor house , as your pearl in your foul oyster . Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift . Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind . Repent. 87 ...
... sects and factions were newly born . ICH honesty dwells , like a miser , in a poor house , as your pearl in your foul oyster . Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift . Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind . Repent. 87 ...
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... born great , some achieve greatness , and some have greatness thrust upon them . Some men must love my lady , and some Joan . Society ( saith the text ) is the happiness of life . Sowed cockle reaped no corn . Superfluity comes sooner ...
... born great , some achieve greatness , and some have greatness thrust upon them . Some men must love my lady , and some Joan . Society ( saith the text ) is the happiness of life . Sowed cockle reaped no corn . Superfluity comes sooner ...
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Página 64 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Página 103 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 76 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give ; Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime 's by action dignified.
Página 15 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Página 74 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 101 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Página 53 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 132 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 94 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Página 20 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.