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Choice Thoughts From Shakspere, by the Author of 'the Book of Familiar Quotations'.
Choice Thoughts From Shakspere by the Author of 'the Book of Familiar Quotations' Author:William Shakespeare General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: May violets spring ! -- I tell thee, churlish priest, A minist'ring angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. Melancholy. This is mere madness ; And thus a while the fit will work on him : Anon, as patient as the female dove, When that her golden couplets are disclosed, His silence will sit drooping. Providence directs our Actions. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. 000 JULIUS CAESAR. Brutus and Cassius, noble Romans, envious of the popularity of Caesar, conspire with Casca, Decius, and others to assassinate him. Caesar is warned by his wife Calphurnia and a soothsayer against attending the Capitol; he however disregards their admonitions, and is killed by the conspirators at the foot of Pompey's statue. In the commotion which ensues Brutus harangues the citizens, and wins them over to his side, but Mark Antony (called in the play Marcus Antonius), who is a strong adherent of Caesar's, afterwards addresses the populace, and excites in them a desire to avenge the death of Cassar. Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus, march with an army against Brutus and Cassius, who have fled from Rome and await with their forces the attack of Antony and his confederates. A quarrel ensues between Brutus and Cassius in the tent of the former, prior to the battle which is to decide their fates; their differences, however, are soon healed, and they meet the hostile army at Philippi where they are defeated, and, rather than fall into the hands of their foes, kill themselves. Portia, thewife of Brutus, has, prior to this period, ended her life by poison. An eloquent t...« less