Shakspeare's tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, with illustrative and explanatory notes by J. Hunter |
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Page xii
... give audience ; and there went a rumour in the people's mouths that the goddess Venus was come to play with the god Bacchus for the general good of all Asia . When Cleopatra landed , Antonius sent to invite her to supper to him . But ...
... give audience ; and there went a rumour in the people's mouths that the goddess Venus was come to play with the god Bacchus for the general good of all Asia . When Cleopatra landed , Antonius sent to invite her to supper to him . But ...
Page xix
... give him his part of the isle ; secondly , that he did detain in his hand the ships he lent him to make that war ; thirdly , that having put Lepidus their companion and triumvirate out of his part of the empire , and having deprived him ...
... give him his part of the isle ; secondly , that he did detain in his hand the ships he lent him to make that war ; thirdly , that having put Lepidus their companion and triumvirate out of his part of the empire , and having deprived him ...
Page xx
... give him safe harbour to land without any trouble , and that he would withdraw his army from the sea , as far as one horse could run , until he had put his army ashore , and had lodged his men . Antonius , on the other side , bravely ...
... give him safe harbour to land without any trouble , and that he would withdraw his army from the sea , as far as one horse could run , until he had put his army ashore , and had lodged his men . Antonius , on the other side , bravely ...
Page xxviii
... to deprive him of the occasion and oppor- tunity openly to show his bounty and mercy , and to give his enemies cause to accuse the most courteous and noble prince that ever was , and to appeach him as though xxviii EXTRACTS FROM PLUTARCH.
... to deprive him of the occasion and oppor- tunity openly to show his bounty and mercy , and to give his enemies cause to accuse the most courteous and noble prince that ever was , and to appeach him as though xxviii EXTRACTS FROM PLUTARCH.
Page xxix
... give some pretty pre- sents and gifts unto Octavia and Livia , that , they making means and intercession for me to thee , thou mightest yet extend thy mercy and favour upon me ? Cæsar was glad to hear her say so , persuading himself ...
... give some pretty pre- sents and gifts unto Octavia and Livia , that , they making means and intercession for me to thee , thou mightest yet extend thy mercy and favour upon me ? Cæsar was glad to hear her say so , persuading himself ...
Common terms and phrases
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 give gods gold Guard hand hath hear heart honour Iras 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 Parthia 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
Popular passages
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.