John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
1724 |
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
1725 |
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
1726 |
Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp’d of justice. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
1727 |
I am a man More sinn’d against than sinning. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
1728 |
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1729 |
Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1730 |
Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1731 |
Out-paramoured the Turk. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1732 |
’T is a naughty night to swim in. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1733 |
The green mantle of the standing pool. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1734 |
But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom’s food for seven long year. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1735 |
The prince of darkness is a gentleman. 1 |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1736 |
Poor Tom ’s a-cold. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1737 |
I ’ll talk a word with this same learned Theban. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1738 |
Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still,—Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
1739 |
The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me. |
King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 6. |
Note 1. The prince of darkness is a gentleman.—Sir John Suckling: The Goblins. [back] |