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Page 179 - If she first meet the curled Antony, He'll make demand of her ; and spend that kiss Which is my heaven to have. — Come, thou mortal wretch, [ To an asp, which she applies to her breast. With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie : poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak ! That I might hear thee call great Caesar, Ass Unpolicied!
Page xxi - Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page 178 - Give me my robe, put on my crown ; I have Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip : — Yare, yare, good Iras ; quick. — Methinks I hear Antony call ; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act...
Page 46 - ... silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 144 - That, which is now a horse, even with a thought, The rack dislimns ; and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Page xxxvi - Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay : our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair [Embracing. And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.
Page 155 - Noblest of men, woo't die? Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide In this dull world, which in thy absence is No better than a sty? — O, see, my women, [ ANTONY dies. The crown o
Page 77 - Why this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads: This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless the accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench...
Page 45 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 24 - Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink The stale of horses and the gilded puddle Which beasts would cough at : thy palate then did deign The roughest berry on the rudest hedge; Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst. On the Alps It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some did die to look on...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 18 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Contributor | Sir Sidney Lee |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1908 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 27 Dec 2006 |
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