Posts tagged Antonio

Chat 10
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Posted 5 months ago

The Merchant of Venice (IV,i,180-187)

  1. Portia:
  2. You stand within his danger, do you not?
  3. Antonio:
  4. Ay, so he says.
  5. Portia:
  6. Do you confess the bond?
  7. Antonio:
  8. I do.
  9. Portia:
  10. Then must the Jew be merciful.
  11. Shylock:
  12. On what compulsion must I? tell me that.
  13. Portia:
  14. The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
  15. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
  16. Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
  17. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Chat
Posted 1 year ago

The Tempest: "What's past is prologue" (II,i,245,254)

  1. Antonio:
  2. . . . Who's the next heir of Naples?
  3. Sebastian:
  4. Claribel.
  5. Antonio:
  6. She that is Queen of Tunis; she that dwells
  7. Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples
  8. Can have no note, unless the sun were post—
  9. The Man i' th' Moon's too slow—till new-born chins
  10. Be rough and razorable; she that from whom
  11. We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again
  12. (And by that destiny) to perform an act
  13. Whereof what's past is prologue; what to come,
  14. In yours and my discharge.
Chat
Posted 1 year ago

Julius Caesar: "A Lean and Hungry Look" (I,ii,190-195)

  1. Caesar:
  2. Antonio!
  3. Marcus Antonius:
  4. Caesar?
  5. Caesar:
  6. Let me have men about me that are fat,
  7. Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
  8. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
  9. He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
Chat 2
Notes
Posted 1 year ago

Much Ado About Nothing: "There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently" (V,i,31-38)

  1. Leonato:
  2. Therefore give me no counsel,
  3. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
  4. Antonio:
  5. Therein do men from children nothing differ.
  6. Leonato:
  7. I pray thee peace, I will be flesh and blood;
  8. For there was never yet philosopher
  9. That could endure the toothache patiently,
  10. However they have writ the style of gods,
  11. And made a push at chance and sufferance.