This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. All’s Well That Ends Well, Act iv, Scene 2
Heart |
A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act v, Scene 2
Heart |
Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more to blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath this neighbours air, and let rich music’s tongue unfold the imagined happiness that both receive in either by this dear encounter.
Heart |
A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Clarence at IV, viii)
A milksop, one that never in his life felt so much cold as over shoes in snow. Richard III, Act v, Scene 5
Heart |
Ah! what a sign it is of evil life, when death's approach is seen so terrible!
A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, and all unlooked-for from Your Highness' mouth. A dearer merit, not so deep a maim as to be cast forth in the common air, have I deserved at Your Highness' hands. The language I have learned these forty years, my native English, now I must forgo; and now my tongue's use is to me nor more than an unstringed viol or a harp. Or like a cunning instrument cased up, or, being open, put into his hands that knows no touch to tune the harmony. Within my mouth you have enjailed my tongue, doubly portcullised with my teeth and lips, and dull unfeeling barren ignorance is made my jailer to attend on me. The Life and Death of Richard the Second, Act I, Scene 3
Heart |
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, that would reduce these bloody days again and make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase that would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: that she may long live here, God say amen! Richard III, Act v, Scene 5
A good wit will make use of anything. I will turn diseases to commodity. Henry IV, Act i, Scene 2
As by your high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, as procurator to your excellence, to marry Princess Margaret for your grace, so, in the famous ancient city Tours, in presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, the Dukes of Orleans, Calabar, Bretagne, and Alencon, seven earls, twelve barons, and twenty reverend bishops, I have performed my mask and was espoused. Henry VI, Act I, Scene 1
Abundance | Books | Ceremony | Fear | Heart | Love | Rage | Recompense | Strength | Learn |
Appear thou in the likeness of sigh; Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied! Cry but 'Ay me! pronounce but 'love' and 'dove': Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, One nickname for her purblind son and heir Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so true When King Cophetus loved the beggar maid! Romeo and Juliet, Act ii, Scene 1
Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.
Heart |
CAMILLO: You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely. ARCHIDAMUS: Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utterance. Winter’s Tale, Act i, Scene 1
Affliction | Heart | Think |