That voice … heard so oft
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge
Of battle when it raged.
Paradise Lost, Bk. 1. MILTON.
Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!
Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
King Richard III., Act v. Sc. 8. SHAKESPEARE.
We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns,
And pass them current too. God's me, my horse!
King Henry IV., Pt. I. Act ii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Never be it said
That Fate itself could awe the soul of Richard.
Hence, babbling dreams; you threaten here in vain;
Conscience, avaunt, Richard's himself again!
Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds. To horse! away!
My soul's in arms, and eager for the fray.
Shakespeare's Richard III. (Altered), Act. v. Sc. 3. C. GIBBER.
BEAUTY.
Is she not passing fair?
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
And she is fair, and fairer than that word.
Merchant of Venice, Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
As You Like It, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.
Cymon and Iphigenia. J. DRYDEN.
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.