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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... good effects may spring from words of love . King Lear , i . 1 . For nothing this wide universe I call , Save thou , my rose ; in it thou art my all . Sonnets , cix . Still harping on my daughter . She's a most exquisite January 13th .
... good effects may spring from words of love . King Lear , i . 1 . For nothing this wide universe I call , Save thou , my rose ; in it thou art my all . Sonnets , cix . Still harping on my daughter . She's a most exquisite January 13th .
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... art As truth and beauty shall together thrive . Sonnets , xiv . January 26th . All thy vexations , Were but my trials of thy love , and thou Hast strangely stood the test . Tempest , iv . 1 . How wayward is this foolish love That , like ...
... art As truth and beauty shall together thrive . Sonnets , xiv . January 26th . All thy vexations , Were but my trials of thy love , and thou Hast strangely stood the test . Tempest , iv . 1 . How wayward is this foolish love That , like ...
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... thy worth with 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 ...
... thy worth with 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 ...
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... Thou art an old love - monger and speakest skilfully . Love's Labour Lost , ii . 1 . Even as one heat another heat expels , Or as one nail by strength drives out another , So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite ...
... Thou art an old love - monger and speakest skilfully . Love's Labour Lost , ii . 1 . Even as one heat another heat expels , Or as one nail by strength drives out another , So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite ...
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... art thou the worse For this poor furniture and mean array . Taming of the Shrew , iv . 3 . March 20th . You are a lover ; borrow Cupid's wings , And soar with them . Romeo and Juliet , i . 4 . How oft , when thou , my music , music play ...
... art thou the worse For this poor furniture and mean array . Taming of the Shrew , iv . 3 . March 20th . You are a lover ; borrow Cupid's wings , And soar with them . Romeo and Juliet , i . 4 . How oft , when thou , my music , music play ...
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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.