Shakspeare's tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, with illustrative and explanatory notes by J. Hunter |
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... keep good love and amity betwixt her brother and him . ' : ' Sextus Pompeius at that time kept in Sicilia , and so made 20 many an inroad into Italy with a great number of pinnaces and other pirate ships , of the which were captains two ...
... keep good love and amity betwixt her brother and him . ' : ' Sextus Pompeius at that time kept in Sicilia , and so made 20 many an inroad into Italy with a great number of pinnaces and other pirate ships , of the which were captains two ...
Page xvii
... keep themselves within the confines and territories of Mesopo- tamia and Media . Howbeit , Ventidius durst not undertake to follow them any farther , fearing lest he should have gotten Antonius ' displeasure by it . After Antony had set ...
... keep themselves within the confines and territories of Mesopo- tamia and Media . Howbeit , Ventidius durst not undertake to follow them any farther , fearing lest he should have gotten Antonius ' displeasure by it . After Antony had set ...
Page xxi
... keep at Toryne ? ' ' Furthermore , he dealt very friendly and courteously with 33 Domitius , and against Cleopatra's mind . For he , being sick of an ague , when he went and took a little boat to go unto Cæsar's camp , Antonius was very ...
... keep at Toryne ? ' ' Furthermore , he dealt very friendly and courteously with 33 Domitius , and against Cleopatra's mind . For he , being sick of an ague , when he went and took a little boat to go unto Cæsar's camp , Antonius was very ...
Page xxiv
... keep it with such solemnity , that she exceeded all measure of sumptuousness and magnificence , so that the guests that were bidden to the feasts , and came poor , went away rich . ' ' So Cæsar came and pitched his camp hard by the city ...
... keep it with such solemnity , that she exceeded all measure of sumptuousness and magnificence , so that the guests that were bidden to the feasts , and came poor , went away rich . ' ' So Cæsar came and pitched his camp hard by the city ...
Page xxvi
... keep bis promise . This man , drawing his sword , lift it up as though he had meant to have stricken his master ; but , turning his head at one side , he thrust his sword into himself , and fell down dead at his master's foot . Then ...
... keep bis promise . This man , drawing his sword , lift it up as though he had meant to have stricken his master ; but , turning his head at one side , he thrust his sword into himself , and fell down dead at his master's foot . Then ...
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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 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
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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.