John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 1589 |
| Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 1590 |
| Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 1591 |
| To hold, as ’t were, the mirror up to nature. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 1592 |
| The very age and body of the time his form and pressure. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 1593 |
| Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 1594 |
| Not to speak it profanely. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 1595 |
| I have thought some of Nature’s journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 1596 |
| First Play. We have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. Ham. O, reform it altogether. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 1597 |
| Horatio, thou art e’en as just a man As e’er my conversation coped withal. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 1598 |
| No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 1599 |
| A man that fortune’s buffets and rewards Hast ta’en with equal thanks. |
| Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |