John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
1855 |
’T was merry when You wager’d on your angling; when your diver Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 5. |
1856 |
Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne! |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 7. |
1857 |
Who does i’ the wars more than his captain can Becomes his captain’s captain; and ambition, The soldier’s virtue, rather makes choice of loss, Than gain which darkens him. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
1858 |
He wears the rose Of youth upon him. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Sc. 13. |
1859 |
Men’s judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Sc. 13. |
1860 |
To business that we love we rise betime, And go to ’t with delight. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 4. |
1861 |
This morning, like the spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 4. |
1862 |
The shirt of Nessus is upon me. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 12. |
1863 |
Sometime we see a cloud that ’s dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower’d citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon ’t. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 14. |
1864 |
That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 14. |
1865 |
Since Cleopatra died, I have liv’d in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 14. |
1866 |
I am dying, Egypt, dying. |
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 15. |