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Page 138
Agr . And strange it is , That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted
deeds . Mec . His taints and honors Waged equal with him.1 Agr . A rarer spirit
never Did steer humanity : but you , gods , will give us Some faults to make us
men ...
Agr . And strange it is , That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted
deeds . Mec . His taints and honors Waged equal with him.1 Agr . A rarer spirit
never Did steer humanity : but you , gods , will give us Some faults to make us
men ...
Page 146
To vie strange forms with Fancy ; yet , to imagine An Antony , were Nature's piece
' gainst Fancy , Condemning shadows quite . Dol . Hear me , good madam : Your
loss is as yourself , great ; and you bear it As answering to the weight . Would I ...
To vie strange forms with Fancy ; yet , to imagine An Antony , were Nature's piece
' gainst Fancy , Condemning shadows quite . Dol . Hear me , good madam : Your
loss is as yourself , great ; and you bear it As answering to the weight . Would I ...
Page 155
If thou and nature can so gently part , The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch ,
Which hurts , and is desired . Dost thou lie still ? If thus thou vanishest , ' thou tell'
st the world It is not worth leave - taking . Char . Dissolve , thick cloud , and rain ...
If thou and nature can so gently part , The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch ,
Which hurts , and is desired . Dost thou lie still ? If thus thou vanishest , ' thou tell'
st the world It is not worth leave - taking . Char . Dissolve , thick cloud , and rain ...
Page 188
She doth think she has Strange lingering poisons : I do know her spirit , And will
not trust one of her malice with A drug of such damn'd nature : those she has Will
stupify and dull the sense awhile ; Which first , perchance , she'll prove on cats ...
She doth think she has Strange lingering poisons : I do know her spirit , And will
not trust one of her malice with A drug of such damn'd nature : those she has Will
stupify and dull the sense awhile ; Which first , perchance , she'll prove on cats ...
Page 192
Hath Nature given them eyes To see this vaulted arch , and the rich crop Of sea
and land , which can distinguish ' twixt The fiery orbs above , and the twinn'd
stones Upon the number'd beach ? and can we not Partition make with
spectacles so ...
Hath Nature given them eyes To see this vaulted arch , and the rich crop Of sea
and land , which can distinguish ' twixt The fiery orbs above , and the twinn'd
stones Upon the number'd beach ? and can we not Partition make with
spectacles so ...
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Page 27 - tis as soon Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more, Than could his war resisted. Cffis. Antony, Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel Did famine follow ; whom thou fought'st against, Though daintily brought up, with patience more Than savages could suffer...
Page 32 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Page 145 - His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world : his voice was propertied, As all the tuned spheres : and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.
Page 43 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature ; on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. Agr. O ! rare for Antony. Eno. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 133 - I am dying, Egypt, dying ; only I here importune death awhile, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips.— Cleo.
Page 123 - O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more : Fortune and Antony part here ; even here Do we shake hands. — All come to this ? — The hearts That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets On blossoming Cassar ; and this pine is bark'd, That overtopp'd them all.
Page 141 - My desolation does begin to make A better life: 'Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave, A minister of her will ; And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change ; Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.
Page 44 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm A seeming mermaid steers : the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs.
Page 126 - That, which is now a horse , even with a thought, The rack dislimns , and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. Eros. It does , my lord. Ant. My good knave , Eros , now thy captain is Even such a body : here I am Antony , Yet cannot hold this visible shape , my knave.
Page 152 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
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| Title | Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline Volume 12 of The Plays of Shakspeare: In Fourteen Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | L.A. Lewis, 125, Fleet Street., 1841 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2008 |
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