Cupid's Birthday Book: One Thousand Love-darts from Shakespeare, Gathered and Arranged for Every Day in the YearW.P. Nimmo, 1875 - 448 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 13
Page
... JANUARY . Honour , riches , marriage - blessing , Long continuance , and increasing , Hourly joys be still upon you ! Juno sings her blessings on you . Since thou lovest , love still and thrive therein . Tempest , iv . 1 .
... JANUARY . Honour , riches , marriage - blessing , Long continuance , and increasing , Hourly joys be still upon you ! Juno sings her blessings on you . Since thou lovest , love still and thrive therein . Tempest , iv . 1 .
Page
... Sing no more ditties , sing no moe Of dumps so dull and heavy ; The fraud of men was ever so , Since summer first was leafy : Then sigh not so , etc. Much Ado about Nothing , ii . 3 . FEBRUARY . Under the greenwood tree , Who loves to ...
... Sing no more ditties , sing no moe Of dumps so dull and heavy ; The fraud of men was ever so , Since summer first was leafy : Then sigh not so , etc. Much Ado about Nothing , ii . 3 . FEBRUARY . Under the greenwood tree , Who loves to ...
Page
... 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 .
... 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 .
Page
... green corn - field did pass In the spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding a ding , ding ; Sweet lovers love the spring . As You Like It , v . 3 . Love is your master , for he masters you . MARCH. ...
... green corn - field did pass In the spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding a ding , ding ; Sweet lovers love the spring . As You Like It , v . 3 . Love is your master , for he masters you . MARCH. ...
Page 7
... arising From sullen earth , sings hymns at heaven's gate ; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings . Sonnets , xxix . F How easy is it for the proper - false March 7th .
... arising From sullen earth , sings hymns at heaven's gate ; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings . Sonnets , xxix . F How easy is it for the proper - false March 7th .
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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.