Shakspeare's tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, with illustrative and explanatory notes by J. Hunter |
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... answer unto such accusations as were laid against her . So she furnished herself with a world of gifts , store of gold and silver , and of riches and other sumptuous ornaments , as is credible enough she might bring from so great a ...
... answer unto such accusations as were laid against her . So she furnished herself with a world of gifts , store of gold and silver , and of riches and other sumptuous ornaments , as is credible enough she might bring from so great a ...
Page xiii
... answered him , No ( quoth he ) , not many guests , not above twelve in all ; but yet all that is boiled or roasted must be served in whole or else it would be marred straight : for Antonius , peradven- ture , will sup presently , or it ...
... answered him , No ( quoth he ) , not many guests , not above twelve in all ; but yet all that is boiled or roasted must be served in whole or else it would be marred straight : for Antonius , peradven- ture , will sup presently , or it ...
Page xvi
... answered him , Thou shouldst have done it and never have told it me ; but now we must content us with that we have : as for myself , I was never taught to break my faith , nor to be counted a traitor . The other two also did likewise ...
... answered him , Thou shouldst have done it and never have told it me ; but now we must content us with that we have : as for myself , I was never taught to break my faith , nor to be counted a traitor . The other two also did likewise ...
Page xix
... answered him again , ―That for Lepidus , he had indeed despoiled him , and taken his part of the empire from him , because he did over- cruelly use his authority ; and , secondly , for the conquests he had made by force of arms , he was ...
... answered him again , ―That for Lepidus , he had indeed despoiled him , and taken his part of the empire from him , because he did over- cruelly use his authority ; and , secondly , for the conquests he had made by force of arms , he was ...
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... answered him weeping , that they would neither do it , nor yet forsake him . Then Antonius very courteously and ... answer , that he would deny her nothing reasonable , so that she would either put Antonius to death , or drive him ...
... answered him weeping , that they would neither do it , nor yet forsake him . Then Antonius very courteously and ... answer , that he would deny her nothing reasonable , so that she would either put Antonius to death , or drive him ...
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Agrippa Alex ALEXAS ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Antony's army battle brother Cæs called Canidius Char Charmian Cleo command dead death Dolabella Editor's Egypt Egyptian emperor ENOBARBUS Enter ANTONY Enter CESAR Enter CLEOPATRA Eros EUPHRONIUS Exeunt Exit Extracts from Plutarch eyes Farewell fear feast fight follow fortune Fulvia galley give gods gold Guard hand hath hear heart honour Iras Italy Julius Cæsar kings kiss lady land Lepidus look lord Macbeth madam MARDIAN Mark Antony means MECENAS Menas Mess Messenger monument never night noble Octa Octavia Octavius Cæsar Parthians Pompey pray Proculeius queen Richard II Roman Rome Scar SCARUS SCENE Second Sold sent Sextus Pompeius Shakspeare ships soldier Sooth speak sword Syria tell thee thine things Third Sold thou hast thought Thyr THYREUS unto Cæsar Ventidius wife women word
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Page 149 - I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life. So, have you done? Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips. Farewell kind Charmian, Iras, long farewell.
Page 144 - He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian. [ Whispers Charmian, Iras. Finish, good lady ; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark.
Page 140 - His legs bestrid the ocean, his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends : But when he meant to quail, and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.
Page 150 - With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch.
Page 28 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Page 136 - My desolation does begin to make A better life : Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave, A minister of her will ; And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change; Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.
Page 131 - We'll bury him ; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to take us.
Page 23 - s name strikes more Than could his war resisted. GCSAR. Antony, Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once Was beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel Did famine follow; whom thou fought'st against, Though daintily brought up, with patience more Than savages could suffer. Thou didst drink The stale of horses and the gilded puddle Which beasts would cough at.
Page 58 - They take the flow o' the Nile By certain scales i' the pyramid ; they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, A.nd shortly comes to harvest.
Page 88 - Egypt, thou knew'st too well My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings, And thou shouldst tow me after: O'er my spirit Thy full supremacy thou knew'st ; and that Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods Command me. Cleo. О, my pardon. Ant. Now I must To the young man send humble treaties, dodge And palter in the shifts of lowness ; who With half the bulk o' the world play'd as I pleas'd, Making and marring fortunes.