UPON AVON

by compound complex 13 Replies latest jw friends

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Ever so sweetly flow his timeless declarations,
    Like the cascading brook, its waters to the sea,
    The robust but mellow verse of our bard of Avon.

    However much we imbibe his immortal words, this
    Thirst for lucid and memorable phrase could never be
    Slaked nor ever our hunger for meaty thought be sated.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

    Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

    Hamlet

  • Lozhasleft
    Lozhasleft

    Hi Coco - good ol' Hamlet...I'm doing a Shakespeare in Performance module at Uni currently (as a very mature student lol) and watched the National Theatre's production of it last week...

    Loz x

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Excellent, Loz! !

    How wonderful and thanks for sharing.

    If you have a favorite Shakespeare quotation, please feel free to post it here.

    Break a leg, O worthy Thespius!

    CoCo in the Wings

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

    MACBETH

  • misanthropic
    misanthropic

    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
    To the last syllable of recorded time,
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

    MACBETH

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Thank you, Miss Ann!

    I was trying to remember the introduction to what I had written above.

    Away, away to gauzy dreamland,
    The bard's precious verse united,
    Breezing about my little slumber.

    Gratefully,

    CoCo

  • eva luna
    eva luna

    I wonder what you think?

    Being in 'love' makes your mind expand.

  • Nobleheart
    Nobleheart

    "If you have a favorite Shakespeare quotation, please feel free to post it here."

    I absolutely love Shakespeare.

    By all the vows that ever men have broke,
    In number more than ever women spoke,
    In that same place thou hast appointed me,
    To-morrow truly will I meet with thee.

    (Midsummer Night's Dream)

    I pray you, in your letters,
    When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
    Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
    Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
    Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well;
    Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought,
    Perplex'd in the extreme. . .

    (Othello)

    "This above all: to thine own self be true,

    And it must follow, as the night the day,

    Thou canst not then be false to any man."

    (Hamlet)

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2

    Marc Antony:

    "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
    I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
    The evil that men do lives after them,
    The good is oft interred with their bones,
    So let it be with Caesar ..."

    The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 3

    Antonio:

    "Mark you this, Bassanio,
    The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
    An evil soul, producing holy witness,
    Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
    A goodly apple rotten at the heart
    O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"

    Syl

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