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«Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
antiquity, beard, belly, blasted, break wind, cheek, chin, chinned, chins, decreased, decreases, decreasing, increasing, leg, moist, take it on the chin, yellow
«My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules»
«This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea Whose rocky shore beats back the envi»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
farm, leased, leases, leasing, pelt, pelting, pelts, pronouncing, rocky, rocky shore, tenement, tenements, The Rocky, triumphant
«A deed without a name.»
«His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
elements, gentle, mix, mixes, mix in, mix up, stand up, The Elements, This Was
«Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dwelling house, dwells, foul, miser, oyster, pearl
«Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that»
«I thank you for your voices: thank you:Your most sweet voices.»
«Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dryly, eats, pear, pears, virginity, withered
«What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Fate
| Keywords:
abide, boots, impose, tide
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