The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 18Jefferson Press, 1908 |
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Page 82
... Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony , ch . 38 : " Antonius followeth the life and example of Timon Misanthropos the Athenian . ” 58 gules ] the heraldic term for " red . " PHRY . Thy lips rot off ! TIM . I [ 82 ] TIMON OF ATHENS ACT IV.
... Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony , ch . 38 : " Antonius followeth the life and example of Timon Misanthropos the Athenian . ” 58 gules ] the heraldic term for " red . " PHRY . Thy lips rot off ! TIM . I [ 82 ] TIMON OF ATHENS ACT IV.
Page 117
... Plutarch in his Life of An- tony credits Timon with a speech to this precise effect . Shakespeare follows Plutarch's words very literally here . 206 in the sequence of degree ] in due order of precedence , from highest to lowest . 190 ...
... Plutarch in his Life of An- tony credits Timon with a speech to this precise effect . Shakespeare follows Plutarch's words very literally here . 206 in the sequence of degree ] in due order of precedence , from highest to lowest . 190 ...
Page 125
... Plutarch in his Life of M. An- tonius , these four lines are found verbatim , with the difference that wretches there takes the place of caitiffs ( 1. 71 ) , and that each of the two couplets is presented separately as an alternative ...
... Plutarch in his Life of M. An- tonius , these four lines are found verbatim , with the difference that wretches there takes the place of caitiffs ( 1. 71 ) , and that each of the two couplets is presented separately as an alternative ...
Page 128
... Plutarch's graphic record of Antony's infatuation ( in his biography of Antony ) first taught Western Europe in the early days of the Renaissance the whole truth about the Queen of Egypt . The Greek biographer established her vogue in ...
... Plutarch's graphic record of Antony's infatuation ( in his biography of Antony ) first taught Western Europe in the early days of the Renaissance the whole truth about the Queen of Egypt . The Greek biographer established her vogue in ...
Page 128
... Plutarch's " Life of Antony , " but to " the fifty - first book of Dion Cassius ' history . ' Finally the inferior hand of Nicolas de Montreux took up the parable of Cleopatra in 1594. His five - act tragedy of " Cleopatre , " alike in ...
... Plutarch's " Life of Antony , " but to " the fifty - first book of Dion Cassius ' history . ' Finally the inferior hand of Nicolas de Montreux took up the parable of Cleopatra in 1594. His five - act tragedy of " Cleopatre , " alike in ...
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Agrippa ALCIB Alcibiades Alexas Antony and Cleopatra Antony's APEM Apemantus Athenian bear beast bounty breath CAPH CHAR Charmian CLEO dead death dost thou drink Egypt Enobarbus Eros Euphronius Exeunt Exit eyes fear feast Flaminius flatterer FLAV Flavius Folio reading fool fortune friends Fulvia give gods gold hate hath hear heart honest honour infra IRAS jewel Julius Cæsar knave Lepidus live look Lord Timon lordship Lucius Lucullus madam Mark Antony master means MESS mistress nature ne'er never noble Octavia OLD ATH PAIN Parthia Phrynia play Plutarch POET Pompey pray prithee queen Rome SCENE Senators SERV servants Servilius Sextus Pompeius Shakespeare SOLD soldier speak steward supra sword tell thee Theobald's There's thine THIRD LORD thou art thou hast thyself Timon of Athens TIMON'S HOUSE tragedy Varro Ventidius villain wert word wouldst
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Page 183 - 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 xxiii - 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 182 - 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 50 - ... 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 148 - That, which is now a horse, even with a thought, The rack dislimns ; and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Page xl - 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 159 - 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 81 - 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 49 - 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 28 - 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...