The Wisdom of Shakespeare: Being Extracts from His Prose and Verse

William Shakespeare

Brentano's, 1909 - 195 pàgines

Continguts

• Contents: 1
• Time: 3
• England: 5
• Escape The 92: 11
• Birth and Distinction: 20
• Fear The of Death 55: 24
• Traveler The: 27
• Idealism 184: 38
• Generosity: 64
• Praise Pride and: 71
• Good Counsel 134: 77
• Internal Harmony: 80
• Women: 91
• Jealousy 34: 97
• BitterSweet Loves: 99
• Loves Decay 112: 112
• Man I: 120
• Counsel Good: 122
• Reason The Blood and: 136
• Heavenly Portents II: 154
• SelfSlaughter: 156
• Days Feast 24: 163
• Marriage 87: 165
• Mercy 60: 179

Passatges populars

Pàgina 102 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.

Pàgina 7 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.

Pàgina 8 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor...

Pàgina 120 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, — wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, — By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...

Pàgina 88 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land ; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience, — Too little payment for so great a debt.

Pàgina 161 - Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.

Pàgina 162 - Thou hast nor youth, nor age ; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both: for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld ; and when thou art old, and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant.

Pàgina 96 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...

Pàgina 188 - Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...

Pàgina 153 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...

Informació bibliogràfica

• Títol: The Wisdom of Shakespeare: Being Extracts from His Prose and Verse
• Autor: William Shakespeare
• Editor: Henry Copley Greene
• Editor: Brentano's, 1909
• Original de: Biblioteca Pública de Nova York
• Digitalitzat el: 5 Gen. 2007
• Nre. de pàgines: 195 pàgines