John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 614 |
| The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 615 |
| For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 616 |
| The true beginning of our end. 1 |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 617 |
| The best in this kind are but shadows. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 618 |
| A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 619 |
| This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 620 |
| The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 621 |
| My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 622 |
| Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 623 |
| Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 624 |
| You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| Note 1. I see the beginning of my end.—Philip Massinger: The Virgin Martyr. act iii. sc. 3. [back] |