wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five. Was I with you there for the goose?” — Mercutio This term didn’t originally refer to actual geese, but rather a type of horse race. . “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” — Iago Before Shakespeare, the colour green was most commonly associated with illness. Shakespeare turned the notion of being sick with jealousy into a metaphor that we still use today. . “Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Get thee to a nunnery, go.” — Hamlet “Lawn as white as driven snow.” — Autolycus Though Shakespeare never actually used the full phrase “pure as driven snow,” both parts of it appear in his work. For the record, this simile works best right after the snow falls, and not a few hours later when tires and footprints turn it into brown slush. . “True is it that we have seen better days and have with holy bell been knolled to church, and sat at good men’s feasts and wiped our eyes of drops that sacred pity hath engendered.” — Duke Senior The first recorded use of “seen better days” actually appeared in Sir Thomas More’s work in , but the play was written anonymously, and is often at least partially attributed to Shakespeare.
We do know Shakespeare was a fan of the phrase; he uses “seen better days” in As You Like It, and then again in Timon of Athens. . “This is a way to kill a wife with kindness , and thus I’ll curb her mad and headstrong humor.” — Petruchio. The Shakespeare canon would contain fewer dead bodies if his characters all believed they should kill their enemies with kindness instead of knives and poison.
12th Communicative English Book.indb Page Read the following poem carefully. c. THE BIRD SANCTUARY - Sarojini Naidu. In your quiet garden wakes a magic tumult Of winged choristers that keep the Festival of Dawn, Blithely rise the