Shakspeare's Mental Photographs · William Shakespeare
DESCRIBE YOUR IDEAL?
1. Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. _King Lear._ Act v. Scene 3. 2. His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart; His heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth. _Two Gentlemen of Verona._ Act ii. Scene 7. 3. She is not yet so old But she may learn; and happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn. _Merchant of Venice._ Act iii. Scene 2. 4. She’s not froward, but modest as the dove; She is not hot, but temperate as the morn; For patience she will prove a second Grissel. _Taming of the Shrew._ Act ii. Scene 1. 5. She is not so divine, So full replete with choice of all delights, But, with as humble lowliness of mind, She is content to be at your command. _Henry VI._ Part I. Act v. Scene 5. 6. A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity. _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act v. Scene 1. 7. He plays o’ the viol-de gambo, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature. _Twelfth Night._ Act i. Scene 3. 8. One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match, since first the world begun. _Romeo and Juliet._ Act i. Scene 2.
9. O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd; She was a vixen when she went to school; And, though she be but little, she is fierce. _Midsummer Night’s Dream._ Act iii. Scene 2. 10. Whose beauty claims No worse a husband than the best of men; Whose virtue, and whose general graces, speak That which none else can utter. _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act ii. Scene 2. 11. He is a very valiant trencher-man, he hath an excellent stomach. _Much Ado About Nothing._ Act i. Scene 1. 12. Gentle and fair. _Measure for Measure._ Act i. Scene 5. 13. I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth; In voices well divulg’d, free, learn’d, and valiant, And, in dimension, and the shape of nature, A gracious person. _Twelfth Night._ Act i. Scene 5. 14. He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity: Yet notwithstanding, being incens’d, he’s flint. _Henry IV._ Part II. Act iv. Scene 4. 15. A pure unspotted heart, Never yet taint with love. _Henry VI._ Part I. Act v. Scene 3. 16. The kindest man, The best condition’d and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies; and one in whom The ancient Roman honor more appears, Than any that draws breath. _Merchant of Venice._ Act iii. Scene 2.
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