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This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers b...
7) “Othello”: Angry that he was overlooked for a promotion, Iago plots to overthrow Othello by telling lies and getting Othello to cause his own downfall. Through rumors and paranoia, Othello murders his wife, Desdemona, believing she has cheated on him. Later, the truth comes out and O...
O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again. Fear Things done ...
(Actor Megan Fox, for example, has a line from King Lear—“We will all laugh at gilded butterflies”—inked on her shoulder.) More From Biography Here are 20 of the playwright’s most famous quotes about life and love. “To be or not to be—that is the question” —Hamlet, Act ...
William Shakespeare was the most prolific poet and dramatist the Western world has ever seen. His words have staying power; they have remained relevant and moving to readers for more than 400 years. Shakespeare'splaysandsonnetsare some of the most quoted in all of literature. A few quotes stan...
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and that he had given it to his daughter on his death-bed; and remembering the solemn promise she had made at that awful hour in regard to this young maid, whose destiny, and the life of the king himself, seemed to depend on the execution of a project (which, though conceived by the...
The Hive Queen turned to the Pequenino Fathertree Human to figure out how to save Jane and Valentine II. They agreed to work together to call Andrew's philotic essence as it left his dying body and hold on to it long enough to create another bridge, this time between Valentine II and...
11. kettle-drum, a drum resembling a kettle in shape; Douce quotes Cleaveland's Fuscara, "Tuning his draughts with drowsie hums As Danes carowse by kettledrums": bray, like blare, used especially of trumpets, clarions, and such like wind instruments. 12. The triumph of his pledge, th...