Bible—"To consume thine eyes and to grieve thine heart."—1 Samuel ii:33.
Macbeth—"Shew his eyes and grieve his heart."
Bible—"Look not upon me because I am black; because the sun hath looked upon me."—Song of Solomon i:6.
Merchant of Venice—"Mislike me not for my complexion—the shadowed livery of the burnished sun."
Bible—"I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him."—1 Samuel xvii:35.
Othello—"I took by the throat the circumcised dog, and smote him."
Bible—"Opened Job his mouth and cursed his day; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of months."—Job.
Macbeth—"May this accursed hour stand ay accursed in the calendar."
Bible—"What is man that Thou art mindful of him? Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands."—Psalms viii:4; Hebrews ii:6.
Hamlet—"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel; in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world—the paragon of animals."