“You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you...
sith, trump LAVINIA. Not I, my lord, sith true nobility Warrants these words in princely courtesy. SATURNINUS. Thanks, sweet Lavinia. Romans, let us go. ...
wrench At length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground; ... ...
oration: But I should have mentioned, that before the principal person began his oration, he cried out three times, Langro dehul san (these words and the...
hence, fray, exeunt MUTIUS. Brothers, help to convey her hence away, And with my sword I'll keep this door safe. ... MUTIUS. Help, Lucius, help! TITUS kills...
farmished I answered in a few words, but in the most submissive manner, lifting up my left hand, and both my eyes to the sun, as calling him for a witness; and...
stock, confederates, reproachful SATURNINUS. No, Titus, no; the Emperor needs her not, Nor her, nor thee, nor any of thy STOCK. I'll trust by leisure him that...
retinue, credentials, signet His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue;...
bandy, ruffle ... SATURNINUS. But go thy ways; go, give that changing piece To him that flourish'd for her with his sword. A valiant son-in-law thou shalt...
daube, smart, victuals ... But before this, they had daubed my face and both my hands with a sort of ointment, very pleasant to the smell, which, in a few...
sumptuously, re-edified, servitors, repose, basely, impiety ... TITUS. Traitors, away! He rests not in this tomb. This monument five hundred years hath stood, ...
crest, repute ... TITUS. Marcus, even thou hast struck upon my crest, And with these boys mine honour thou hast wounded. My foes I do repute you every one; So...
soporiferous ... All this I was told; for, while the operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused ...
gllant, repent ... SATURNINUS. So, Bassianus, you have play'd your prize: God give you joy, sir, of your gallant bride! ... SATURNINUS. Traitor, if Rome have...
betrothed, short, sharp ... BASSIANUS. Rape, call you it, my lord, to seize my own, My true betrothed love, and now my wife? But let the laws of Rome determine...
On each side of the gate was a small window, not above six inches from the ground: into that on the left side, the king’s smith conveyed fourscore and eleven...
zeal BASSIANUS. My lord, what I have done, as best I may, Answer I must, and shall do with my life. Only thus much I give your Grace to know: By all the duties...
SATURNINUS. What, madam! be dishonoured openly, And basely put it up without revenge? TAMORA. Not so, my lord; the gods of Rome forfend I should be author to...
It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. ...
TAMORA. Titus, I am incorporate in Rome, A Roman now adopted happily, And must advise the Emperor for his good. This day all quarrels die, Andronicus; And let...
I had been for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of nature; which was no wonder, it being almost two days since I had last disburdened myself. I...
LUCIUS. We do, and vow to heaven and to his Highness That what we did was mildly as we might, Tend'ring our sister's honour and our own. MARCUS. That on mine...
SATURNINUS. Marcus, for thy sake, and thy brother's here, And at my lovely Tamora's entreats, I do remit these young men's heinous faults. Stand up. Lavinia,...
I would not have dwelt so long upon a circumstance that, perhaps, at first sight, may appear not very momentous, if I had not thought it necessary to justify...
judicature And these people thought it a prodigious defect of policy among us, when I told them that our laws were enforced only by penalties, without any...
They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which...