John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 667 |
| Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. 1 |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. |
| 668 |
| If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| 669 |
| If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| 670 |
| I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| 671 |
| The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| 672 |
| Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. 2 |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 673 |
| Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 674 |
| In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season’d with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 675 |
| There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 676 |
| Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 677 |
| The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| Note 1. See Heywood, Quotation 18. [back] |
| Note 2. I will play the swan and die in music.—Othello, act v. sc. 2. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death. King John, act v. sc. 7. There, swan-like, let me sing and die.—Lord Byron: Don Juan, canto iii. st. 86. You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.—Socrates: In Phaedo, 77. [back] |