Author: Shakespeare

Cited by

• Margaret Atwood (1)
  • IN: The Heart Goes Last (2015) Fiction, Dystopia, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends
    FROM: A Midsummer's Night Dream, (1600), Play, UK
• Amelia Alderson Opie (1)
  • IN: White Lies (1818) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Men pleas'd theirselves, think others will delight In such like circumstance, with such like sport. Their copious stories oftentimes begun End without audience, and are never done.
    FROM: Aphorisms from Shakespeare, (1812), Book, UK
• Francis Lathom (6)
  • IN: The One-pound Note, and Other Tales (1820) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Let this hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar.
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: The Impenetrable Secret (1831) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ?
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: The unknown; or, The northern gallery (1826) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I hold the world but as the world, A stage, where every man must play his part, And mine a sad one !
    FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
  • IN: Alexis, the Tyrant of the East (1812) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ill deeds are seldom slow Or single,— but following crimes on former wait.
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
• Lady Morgan Sydney (1)
  • IN: Florence Macarthy (1818) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Know thus far forth: By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, New, my dfear lady, bath mine enemies Brought to this shore : and by my prescience, I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence, If now I court not bat omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
    FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
• Matthew Gregory Lewis (3)
  • IN: The Love of Gain (1799) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh ! thou fweet King-killer, and dear Divorce Twixt naturalSon and Sire ! thou bright Defiler Of Hymen's purest Bed ! thou valiant Mars ! Thou ever-loved, fresh, young, and delicate Wooer, Whofe blush doth thaw the confecrated snow That lies on Dian's lap !
    FROM: Timon of Athens, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: The Love of Gain: A Poem (1799) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh ! thou sweet King-killer, and dear Divorce "Twixt natural Son and Sire ! thou bright Defiler Of Hymen's purest Bed ! thou valiant Mars ! Thou ever-loved, frefh, young, and delicate Wooer, Whose blush doth thaw the confecrated snow That lies on Dian's lap !
    FROM: Timon of Athens, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Alfonso, King of Castile: A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1801) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: For us and for our Tragedy, Thus stooping to your clemency, We beg your candid hearing patiently.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
• James Norris Brewer (1)
  • IN: The Fitzwalters, Barons of Chesterton; Or, Ancient Times in England (1829) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Doleful matter merrily set down.
    FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
• Royall Tyler (1)
  • IN: The Algerine Captive: or the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: Six Years a Prisoner among the Algerines (1797) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: By your patience, I will a round unvarnished tale deliver Of my whole course.....
    FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
• Elizabeth Gunning (1)
  • IN: The Gipsey Countess (1799) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Think'st thou I'll endanger my soul gratis?
    FROM: The Merry Wives of Windsor, (1602), Play, UK