The Aldus Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida

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Contains the work "Troilus and Cressida" by William Shakespeare along with notes and commentary by Shakespearean authorities.
 

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Pagina 88 - Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue : if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an...
Pagina 89 - One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, — That all, with one consent, praise new-born gawds, Though they are made and moulded of things past^ And give to dust, that is a little gilt, More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
Pagina 27 - Sans check to good and bad: but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture! O, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick!
Pagina 27 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.— Great Agamemnon, This chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking.
Pagina 75 - This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined, that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
Pagina xxvi - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Pagina 90 - Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles. There is a mystery (with whom relation § Durst never meddle) in the soul of state ; Which hath an operation more divine, Than breath, or pen, can give expressure to...
Pagina 37 - In this wild action ; for the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general ; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.
Pagina 86 - Though in and of him there be much consisting, Till he communicate his parts to others : Nor doth he of himself know them for aught Till he behold them...
Pagina xxxvi - Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing : Things won are done ; joy's soul lies in the doing : JThat she beloved knows nought that knows not this : Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is?'.

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