When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. What a piece of work is a man - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_piece_of_work_is_a_man

    Contents not me, no nor woman too, though you laugh. [2] This version has been argued to have been a bad quarto, a tourbook copy, or an initial draft. By the 1604 Second Quarto, the speech is essentially present but punctuated differently: What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving,

  3. Pull Me Under - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_Me_Under

    O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!

  4. List of works titled after Shakespeare - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_titled_after...

    Too, Too Solid Flesh by Nick O'Donohoe (I.ii) The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens (I.ii) Infants of the Spring by Anthony Powell (I.iii) Path of Dalliance by Auberon Waugh (I.iii) This Above All by Eric Knight (I.iii) "Thine Own Self", 1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I.iii) From "to the manner born" (I.iv):

  5. To be, or not to be - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_be,_or_not_to_be

    That flesh is heir too; tis a consumation Devoutly to be wish'd to die to sleep, To sleep, perhance to dream, ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we haue shuffled off this mortal coil Muſt giue vs pauſe, there's the reſpect That makes calamitie of ſo long life: For who would beare the whips and ſcorns ...

  6. Mead of poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead_of_Poetry

    Anybody could drink of this paltry and sullied portion, which was known as the "rhymester's share" ("skáldfífla hlutr"); but the greater portion of the mead of poetry (which had issued from his mouth) Odin gave to the gods and to those truly gifted in poetry.

  7. The lady doth protest too much, methinks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too...

    The Queen in "Hamlet" by Edwin Austin Abbey "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.It is spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to the insincere overacting of a character in the play within a play created by Prince Hamlet to elicit evidence of his uncle's guilt in the murder of his father, the King of Denmark.

  8. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proverbial_phrases

    You are never too old to learn; You are what you eat; You can have too much of a good thing; You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink; You can never/never can tell; You cannot always get what you want; You cannot burn a candle at both ends. You cannot have your cake and eat it too; You cannot get blood out of a stone

  9. Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pange_lingua_gloriosi...

    The Word as Flesh makes true bread into flesh by a word and the wine becomes the Blood of Christ. And if sense is deficient to strengthen a sincere heart Faith alone suffices. Therefore, the great Sacrament let us reverence, prostrate: and let the old Covenant give way to a new rite. Let faith stand forth as substitute for defect of the senses.