A Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations

Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.

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White: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.— R. J. iii. 2.
I take thy hand; this hand, As soft as doves-down, and as white as it; Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd snow, That's bolted by the northern blasts twice o'er. W. T. iv.

And Red

If she be made of white and red, Her faults will ne'er be known, For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, And fears by pale-white shown Then, if she fear, or be to blame, By this you shall not know; For still her cheeks possess the same, Which native she doth owe. L.L.L
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