POWER DANGEROUS TO ITS POSSESSOR WITHOUT CONSCIENCE. BOLINGBROKE. Mistake not, uncle, further than you should. YORK. Take not, good cousin, further than you should, Lest you mis-take: The heavens are o'er your head. BOLING. I know it, uncle; and oppose not Myself against their will. K. RICHARD II., A. 3, s. 3. POWER DANGEROUS WITH WEAK It must be by his death: and, for my part, It is the bright day, that brings forth the adder, And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, I have not known when his affections sway'd More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees Will bear no colour for the thing he is, And kill him in the shell. JULIUS CESAR, A. 2, s. 1. POWER OF BEAUTY. SUFFOLK. Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner. [Gazes on her. O fairest beauty, do not fear, nor fly; For I will touch thee but with reverent hands, And lay them gently on thy tender side. I kiss these fingers [kissing her hand] for eternal peace: Who art thou? say, that I may honour thee. MARGARET. Margaret my name; and daughter to a king, The king of Naples, whosoe'er thou art. SUF. An earl I am, and Suffolk am I call'd. Be not offended, nature's miracle, Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me: So doth the swan her downy cygnets save, Keeping them prisoners underneath her wings. Yet if this servile usage once offend, Go, and be free again, as Suffolk's friend. [She turns away, as going. O, stay!-I have no power to let her pass; As plays the sun upon the glassy streams, Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses rough. How canst thou tell, she will deny thy suit, She's beautiful; and therefore to be woo'd: K. HENRY VI., PART I., A. 5, s. 3. POWER OF BEAUTY. I HAVE surely seen him : His favour is familiar to me. Boy, thou hast look'd thyself into my grace, And art mine own.-I know not why, nor wherefore, To say, live, boy: ne'er thank thy master; live: CYMBELINE, A. 5, s. 5. POWER OF CHANGE. ONE fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish : Take thou some new infection to the eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. ROMEO AND JULIET, A. 1, s. 2. POWER OF CONSCIENCE. THE heaviness and guilt within my bosom As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn. CYMBELINE, A. 5, s. 2. POWER OF FAITH. "TIS call'd the evil: A most miraculous work in this good king: The healing benediction. With this strange virtue, He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy; And sundry blessings hang about his throne, MACBETH, A. 4, s. 3. POWER OF IMAGINATION. WHY, then 'tis none to you: for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes How many thousand of my poorest subjects Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody? |