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“And as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness, so their rising senses begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle their clearer reason.” (The Tempest Quotes)
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
William Shakespeare
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.”
The Tempest
“Come unto these yellow sands,
William Shakespeare
And then take hands.
Curtsied when you have and kissed
The wild waves whist,
Foot is featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.”
The Tempest
“Full fathom five thy father lies;
William Shakespeare
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.”
The Tempest
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
“I am your wife if you will marry me.
William Shakespeare
If not, I’ll die your maid. To be your fellow
You may deny me, but I’ll be your servant Whether you will or no.”
The Tempest
“I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him. His complexion is perfect gallows.”
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
“I would not wish any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.”
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
“I’ll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I’ll drown my book!” (The Tempest Quotes)
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
“Let us not burthen our remembrance with a heaviness that’s gone.”
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
“Me, poor man, my library
William Shakespeare
Was dukedom large enough.”
The Tempest
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
William Shakespeare
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
The Tempest
“The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
William Shakespeare
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster.”
The Tempest
“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.”
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
“There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
William Shakespeare
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with’t”
The Tempest
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
“What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
William Shakespeare
Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts…”
The Tempest
