Chapter SPEAKING to SPHERE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SPEAKING to SPHERE

SPEAKING.—Because, sister, your words are knocking out the brains of unfortunate me; you are speaking stones. So Shakespeare says, (above) “I will speak daggers to her, but use none;” and Aristophanes says, in one of his plays, “You have spoken roses to me.”

Riley’s Plautus.—The Aulularia, Act II. Scene 1.

Lys. He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows not the stop. It is not enough to speak, but to speak true.

Hip. Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.

The. His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all disordered.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1.

SPEAKING.—Speaking thick, which nature made his blemish.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act II. Scene 3. (Lady Percy to Northumberland.)

SPECTACLES.—What a pair of spectacles is here!

Shakespeare.—Troilus and Cress. Act IV. Scene 4. (Pandarus.)

SPEECH.—Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Colossians, Chap. IV. Verse 6.

A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act IV. Scene 2. (Hamlet to Rosencrantz.)

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much—your hand thus: but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (The Prince and certain Players.)

O, it offends me to the soul, to see a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I could have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet. Act III. Scene 2. (The Prince to the Players.)

SPECULATION.—Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with!

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Macbeth to the Ghost.)

SPHERE.—He comes: We two, like the twin stars, appear;
Never to shine together in one sphere.

Dryden.—Tyrannick Love, Act I. Scene 1.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act V. Scene 4. (Prince Henry to Hotspur.)