John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 1478 |
| It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir 1 abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow’d and so gracious is the time. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 1479 |
| So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill. 2 |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 1480 |
| The memory be green. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1481 |
| With an auspicious and a dropping eye, 3 With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1482 |
| The head is not more native to the heart. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1483 |
| A little more than kin, and less than kind. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1484 |
| All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1485 |
| Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not “seems.” ’T is not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1486 |
| But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1487 |
| ’T is a fault to Heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1488 |
| O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d |
| Note 1. ”Can walk” in White. [back] |
| Note 2. ”Eastern hill” in Dyce, Singer, Staunton, and White. [back] |
| Note 3. ”One auspicious and one dropping eye” in Dyce, Singer, and Staunton. [back] |