Coriolanus - Results found: 64
You are no surer, no, than is the Coal of Fire
upon the Ice, or Hailstones in
the Sun:
Your virtue is To make him worthy whose offence subdues him And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness Deserves your hate; and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours swims
with fins of Lead, & hews down oaks with rushes
By Martius,
in Coriolanus (TLN184-192),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 96
His Nr&235;Nature is too noble for
the World. He would not
flatter Neptune for his Trident, or Jove for's
power to Thunder. His Heart's his Mouth; what
his breast forges, that his Tongue must vent.
And being angry does forget that ever he heard
the Name of Death.
By Menenius,
in Coriolanus (TLN1983-1988),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 98
The fire i'th'lowest Hell fold in
the people!.
Call me their Traitor, thou injurious Tribune?
with in
thine Eyes sat twenty thousand Deaths, In thy hands
clutched as many Millions, in Thy lying Tongue
both Numbers; I would say Thou
liest unto thee, with a voice
as free, As I do pray the gods.
By Coriolanus,
in Coriolanus (TLN2348-2354),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 98
The Tartness of his Face sours ripe grapes. when
he walks, he moves like an Engine, & the Ground
shrinks before his treading. He is able to pierce
a corslet with his Eye: talks like a Knell; & his -
hum is a Battery. He sits in his State
as a
thing made for Alexander.
By Menenius,
in Coriolanus (TLN3586-3591),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 99
Of their being Politicians and Newsmongers
Ibidem
31
Hang them: they say They'll sit by the fire and presume to know What's done in the Capitol: Who's like to rise Who thrives and who declines: Side Factions and give out Conjectural marraiges, making parties strong And feebling such as stand not in their Liking Below their cobbled shoes.
By Martius,
in Coriolanus (TLN203-208),
William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 6r
Of their Mutinies
31
Ibidem
Hang them They said they were an hungry sighed forth Proverbs, That Hunger broke stone Walls, that dogs must eat, That meat was made for mouths, that the Gods sent not Corn for the rich men only -- with these shreds They vented their Complainings
By Martius,
in Coriolanus (TLN218-222),
William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 7r
Of dull Magistrates
Applicable to the Lawyers
37 applicable to the Laywers ---- Ibidem
You wear out a good’ wholesome forenoon in hearing a
cause between an Orange Wife and a faucet-seller and
then adjourn the controversy of threepence to a second
day of Audience.
By Menenius,
in Coriolanus (TLN965-968),
William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 7r
Directions to speak to em the Populace
---- 47. Ibidem
- I prithee now my son Go to em with this bonnet in thy hand; And thus far having stretch'd it (here be with them ) Thy knee bussing the stones for in such business Action is Eloquence; and the eyes of the Ignorant More learned than the Ears
By Volumnia,
in Coriolanus (TLN2173-2178),
William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 7r