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Offline sandwich

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Favorite Soliloquy?
« on: November 05, 2009, 10:44:43 PM »
My response to the favorite poem thread.

What is your favorite Soliloquy?

Personally my favorite is from richard III.

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now,--instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,--
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I,--that am not shap'd for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;--
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun,
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore,--since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,--
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,--
About a prophecy which says that G
Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul:--here Clarence comes.

Offline TEShaw

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Re: Favorite Soliloquy?
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2009, 10:25:04 AM »
You just dragged your mouse over all that Shakespeare junk.

Go read an actual book. (made of paper)

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Re: Favorite Soliloquy?
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2009, 03:08:45 PM »
So youre saying that because I was too lazy to copy the book by myself and instead chose to copy paste it from a website means I didnt read the book?

Youre just plain wrong.

My father is an avid reader of shakespeare and he forced me to read some of his writings when i was younger.

He made me see the movies AND read the book. so :P
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Re: Favorite Soliloquy?
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2009, 03:10:55 PM »
Nothing beats Hamlet  :neener:
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Re: Favorite Soliloquy?
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2009, 03:29:00 PM »
How can you get any better than this?

...We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap...
"Can we be incorrect at times, absolutely, but I do believe 15 years of experience does deserve a little more credence and respect than you have given from your very first post."

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Re: Favorite Soliloquy?
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2009, 07:03:25 PM »
Well, Saint Crispen's Day was a couple of weeks ago.

Sorry you missed it.

Were I to say anything else, you'd think I was impolite.

Have a nice day.

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Re: Favorite Soliloquy?
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2009, 09:01:30 PM »
Taken from Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses:

. . . all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rest unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
. . .
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be that we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Never say die and never too old, eh?
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Re: Favorite Soliloquy?
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2009, 11:26:29 PM »
Well, Saint Crispen's Day was a couple of weeks ago.

Sorry you missed it.

Were I to say anything else, you'd think I was impolite.

Have a nice day.

What?
"Can we be incorrect at times, absolutely, but I do believe 15 years of experience does deserve a little more credence and respect than you have given from your very first post."

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Re: Favorite Soliloquy?
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2009, 01:56:11 AM »
I saw Patrick Stewart do the St Crispin Day speech from Henry V straight of the top of his head...and he was awesome

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