Vulgar words in Shakspere, Personal Recollections (Page 1)
This book at a glance
|
|
~ ~ ~ Sentence 110 ~ ~ ~
Yet he only valued riches as a means of doing good, puncturing the bladder of bloated wealth with this pin of thought: _"If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, And Death unloads thee!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 340 ~ ~ ~
I applauded his spunk and determination, and, at his solicitation willingly joined him in his eloquent rambles.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 349 ~ ~ ~
In passing by the entrance gate to the lordly estate of Sir Thomas Lucy, or Justice Shallow, William nailed up the following poetic shot to the hot-headed old squire, which was read and copied the next morning, by all the market men going to town, and the tavern lads going to their country ploughs: _"The tyrant Thomas Lucy Lets no one go to mass, He's a squire for Queen Bess, And in Parliament an ass; Fair Charlecote is ruined By this bluffer of the state, And only his dependents Will dare to call him great.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,316 ~ ~ ~
Bottom is to play the big blower in the improvised drama and the Jackass among the fairies.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,347 ~ ~ ~
Oberon finds his queen sleeping and squeezes some of the love juice on her eyelids, saying: _"What thou see'st when thou dost awake Do it for thy true love take; Love and languish for his sake; When thou makest, it is thy dear, Wake when some vile thing is near.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,351 ~ ~ ~
"_ Puck finds Bottom in the woods, rehearsing the play for the marriage of Theseus, and translates the weaver into an ass, with a desire for love.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,356 ~ ~ ~
"_ Oberon relents and releases his Fairy Queen from her dream of infatuation with Bottom disguised as an ass, and says: _"But first, I will release the fairy queen, Be as thou wast wont to be;_ (Touching her eyes with the herb.)
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,359 ~ ~ ~
Methought I was enamored of an ass!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,360 ~ ~ ~
"_ Titania is not the only woman who is enamored by an Ass; in fact the mismatched, cross-purposed, twisted, infatuated affections of the sordid, deceitful earth are as thick as blackberries in July, while pretense and pampered power greatly prevail around the globe.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,368 ~ ~ ~
Man is but an ass, a patched fool.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,438 ~ ~ ~
O, my Antonio, I do know of these, That therefore only are reputed wise, For saying nothing; who I am very sure, If they should speak, would almost damn those ears Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,056 ~ ~ ~
If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And Death unloads thee!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,110 ~ ~ ~
Let copulation thrive, for Gloster's bastard son Was kinder to his father than my daughters Got between the lawful sheets; To it luxury, pell-mell, for I lack soldiers.-- Behold yon simpering dame, Whose face between her forks presageth snow; That minceth virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name; The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to it With more riotous appetite.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,185 ~ ~ ~
I said, "William, you only formulated in Henry the Fifth Captain MacMorris, a Scotch-Irish bastard-renegade character, who bears about as much relation to a true Irish gentleman as does a shark to a whale, a hawk to an eagle, or a lynx to a lion."