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William Shakespeare
Come, and take...
Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow.
Source:...
If I do...
If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!
If I do wake, some planet strike me down,
That I may slumber...
The eagle suffers...
The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
If one good...
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.
Source:...
He lives in...
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
Source: Titus Andronicus, I. i....
Beauty itself doth...
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.
Source:...
For greatest scandal...
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Source: The Rape of Lucrece,...
And now this...
And now this pale swan in her watery nest
Begins the sad dirge of her certain ending.
Time's glory is...
Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.
And so to...
And so to publish Tarquin's foul offence:
Which being done with speedy diligence,
The Romans plausibly did give...
Nature that made...
Nature that made thee, with herself at strife,
Saith that the world hath ending with thy...
Once more the...
Once more the engine of her thoughts began:
Source: Venus and Adonis, 367.
--...
Fair flowers that...
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little...
But when her...
But when her lips were ready for his pay,
He winks, and turns his lips another way.
Narcissus so himself...
Narcissus so himself himself forsook,
And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.
To the orbed...
To the orbed earth; sometimes they do extend
Their view right on; anon their gazes lend
To every place at once,...
Of folded schedules...
Of folded schedules had she many a one,
Which she perused, sigh'd, tore, and gave the flood;
Crack'd many a ring...
From off a...
From off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to attend this...
For when we...
For when we rage, advice is often seen
By blunting us to make our wits more keen.
Nor gives it...
Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood,
That we must curb it upon others' proof;
To be forbod the sweets that...