Cupid's Birthday Book: One Thousand Love-darts from Shakespeare, Gathered and Arranged for Every Day in the YearW.P. Nimmo, 1875 - 448 pages |
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... better part ; Mine eye's clear eye , my dear heart's dearer heart , My food , my fortune and my sweet hope's aim , My sole earth's heaven and my heaven's claim . Comedy of Errors , iii . 2 . We that are true lovers run into strange ...
... better part ; Mine eye's clear eye , my dear heart's dearer heart , My food , my fortune and my sweet hope's aim , My sole earth's heaven and my heaven's claim . Comedy of Errors , iii . 2 . We that are true lovers run into strange ...
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... and sue to know you better . King Lear , i . 1 . Nature is fine in love , and where ' tis fine , It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves . Hamlet , iv . 5 . That I love her , I feel . That she Hebquaqy 5th .
... and sue to know you better . King Lear , i . 1 . Nature is fine in love , and where ' tis fine , It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves . Hamlet , iv . 5 . That I love her , I feel . That she Hebquaqy 5th .
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... manners may I sing , When thou art all the better part of me ? What can mine own praise to mine own self bring ? And what is't but mine own when I praise thee ? Sonnets , xxxix . Ere I learn love , I'll practise to obey . Hebquary 21st .
... manners may I sing , When thou art all the better part of me ? What can mine own praise to mine own self bring ? And what is't but mine own when I praise thee ? Sonnets , xxxix . Ere I learn love , I'll practise to obey . Hebquary 21st .
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... . Love sought is good , but given unsought is better . Twelfth Night , iii 1 . Here's the joy ; my friend and I are one ; Sweet flattery ! then she loves but me alone . Sonnets , xiii . I leave myself , my friends , and all , March 15th .
... . Love sought is good , but given unsought is better . Twelfth Night , iii 1 . Here's the joy ; my friend and I are one ; Sweet flattery ! then she loves but me alone . Sonnets , xiii . I leave myself , my friends , and all , March 15th .
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... better deeds than words to grace it . Two Gentlemen of Verona , ii . 2 . Violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die , like fire and powder , Which as they kiss consume : Therefore love moderately ; long love doth so ...
... better deeds than words to grace it . Two Gentlemen of Verona , ii . 2 . Violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die , like fire and powder , Which as they kiss consume : Therefore love moderately ; long love doth so ...
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All's Antony and Cleopatra April beauty beloved blessed cheek Comedy of Errors Cupid Cymbeline daughter dear December dote e'er Ends eyes fair gentle Gentlemen of Verona grace Hamlet hand hath heart heaven Hebquary Henry VIII honour January Julius Cæsar July King John King Lear kiss live look lord love thee Love's Labour Lost Lover's Complaint lovers Macbeth maid married Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives Midsummer Night's Dream Midsummer-Night's Dream mistress ne'er never noble November October Othello Passionate Pilgrim Pericles praise Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet September Shrew sigh sing Sonnets soul speak swear sweet love Taming tell Tempest thine thou art thou dost thou hast thou lovest thou wilt thoughts thy love Titus Andronicus to-morrow tongue Troilus and Cressida true love truth Twelfth Night Venus and Adonis Winter's Tale Wives of Windsor woman words worth youth
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Page 5 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs; She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.
Page 17 - Troilus had his brains dashed out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth...
Page 5 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 29 - What maids lack from head to heel : • Come, buy of me, come ; come buy, come buy ; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry: Come, buy, Sac.