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Shakespeare (Allusion).

No enemy but winter and rough weather - Shakespeare "As You Like It: Under the Greenwood Tree"

A garment out of fashion - William Shakespeare Cymbeline

The reed is as the oak - William Shakespeare "Dirge"

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece - Shakespeare Macbeth

And destroy your sight with a new Gorgon - Shakespeare Macbeth

Mere lees is left this vault to brag of - Shakespeare Macbeth

This fortress build by Nature - William Shakespeare Richard II

Beauty's rose might never die - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"

Light's flame with self-substantial fuel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"

A famine where abundance lies - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"

Herald to the gaudy spring - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"

Proving his beauty by succession - William Shakespeare "Sonnet II"

Nature's bequest gives nothing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IV"

That with gentle work did frame - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

Never-resting time leads summer on - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

Sap checked with frost - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

Though they were with winter meet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

Their substance still lives sweet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

Let not winter's ragged hand deface - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"

Those that pay the willing loan - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"

And make worms thine heir - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"

The gracious light lifts up his burning head - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"

Homage to his new-appearing sight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"

Attending on his golden pilgrimage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"

Sweets with sweets war not - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"

The true concord of well-tuned sounds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"

Whose speechless song being many - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"

For fear to wet a widow's eye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IX"

Folly, age, and cold decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XI"

Behold the violet past prime - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XII"

Among the wastes of time must go - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XII"

Against this coming end you should prepare - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"

So fair a house fall to decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"

Fortune to brief minutes tell - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIV"

The stars in secret influence comment - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"

And wear their brave state out of memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"

The conceit of this inconstant stay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"

And fortify your self in your decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"

On the top of happy hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"

Drawn by your own sweet skill - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"

Old men of less truth than tongue - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVII"

Too hot the eye of heaven shines - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"

Nature's changing course untrimm'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"

Eternal summer shall not fade - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"

Keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"

The wide world and all her fading sweets - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"

With nature's own hand painted - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"

Not acquainted with shifting change - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"

By adding one thing to my purpose - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"

Heaven itself for ornament - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"

With earth and sea's rich gems - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"

Gold candles fix'd in heaven's air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"

An unperfect actor on the stage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"

Replete with too much rage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"

The perfect ceremony of love's rite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"

Who are in favour with their stars - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXV"

The marigold at the sun's eye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXV"

Whatsoever star that guides my moving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"

Puts apparel on my tatter'd loving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"

Intend a zealous pilgrimage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVII"

When day's oppression is not eas'd by night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

Though enemies to either's reign - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

Daily draw my sorrows longer - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

Make grief's length seem stronger - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

When in disgrace with fortune - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIX"

To one more rich in hope - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIX"

Sessions of sweet silent thought - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"

Hid in death's dateless night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"

Exceeded by the height of happier men - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"

Grown with this growing age - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"

To march in ranks of better equipage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"

Full many a glorious morning - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIII"

Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIII"

Permit the basest clouds to ride - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIII"

And cures not the disgrace - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIV"

Yet I have still the loss - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIV"

And ransom all ill deeds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIV"

Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXV"

Such civil war is in my love and hate - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXV"

In our lives a separable spite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"

Steal sweet hours from love's delight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"

By Fortune's dearest spite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVII"

Sour leisure gave sweet leave - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"

Entertain the time with thoughts of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"

Pretty wrongs that liberty commits - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLI"

For still temptation follows - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLI"

Forced to break a twofold truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLI"

From limits far remote - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIV"

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIV"

The first my thought, the other my desire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"

When these quicker elements are gone - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"

In tender embassy of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"

By those swift messengers return'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"

A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVI"

All tenants to the heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVI"

To the painted banquet bids my heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVII"

Not farther than my thoughts - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVII"

Each trifle under truest bars to thrust - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"

The prey of every vulgar thief - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"

Proves thievish for a prize so dear - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"

Frown on my defects - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIX"

Shall reasons find of settled gravity - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIX"

To guard the lawful reasons - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIX"

How heavy do I journey on - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"

Thus far the miles are measured - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"

The bloody spur cannot provoke him - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"

Though mounted on the wind - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LI"

No horse with my desire keep pace - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LI"

Stones of worth they thinly placed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LII"

Whose worthiness gives scope - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LII"

Millions of strange shadows on you - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIII"

And you in every blessed shape - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIII"

Canker blooms have full as deep a dye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIV"

The gilded monuments of princes - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LV"

The living record of your memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LV"

Without accusing you of injury - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LVIII"

For invention bear amiss - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIX"

Your image in some antique book - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIX"

This composed wonder of your frame - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIX"

Whether revolution be the same - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIX"

As the waves make towards the pebbled shore - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"

Our minutes hasten to their end - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"

The parallels in beauty's brow - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"

To play the watchman ever - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXI"

For this sin there is no remedy - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXII"

Grounded inward in my heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXII"

Stealing away the treasure of his spring - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIII"

Shall never cut from memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIII"

By Time's fell hand defac'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIV"

Eternal slave to mortal rage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIV"

Which cannot choose but weep - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIV"

How with this rage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 65"

Siege of battering days - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 65"

Time's best jewel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 65"

Strength by limping sway disabled - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXVI"

That the thought of hearts can mend - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIX"

Slander's mar, was ever yet the fair - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"

A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"

No longer mourn for me - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"

The surly sullen bell give warning - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"

In your sweet thoughts would be forgot - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"

Devise some virtuous lie - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXII"

Those boughs which shake against the cold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXIII"

The coward conquest of a wretch's knife - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXIV"

'Twixt a miser and his wealth is found - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXV"

Full with feasting on your sight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXV"

So barren of new pride - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVI"

Keep invention in a noted weed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVI"

Time's thievish progress to eternity - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVII"

Heavy ignorance aloft to fly - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"

Added feathers to the learned's wing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"

Given grace a double majesty - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"

Every hymn that able spirit affords - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXV"

By spirits taught to write - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVI"

As victors of my silence - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVI"

Too dear for my possessing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVII"

Merit in the eye of scorn - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVIII"

A story of faults conceal'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVIII"

Myself will bear all wrong - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVIII"

To set a form upon desired change - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXIX"

Join with the spite of fortune - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XC"

The very worst of fortune's might - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XC"

The false heart's history - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIII"

A mansion have those vices got - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCV"

The hardest knife ill-us'd doth lose his edge - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCV"

What freezing have I felt - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCVII"

For summer and his pleasures wait - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCVII"

And buds of marjoram had stol'n - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"

Roses fearfully on thorns did stand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"

Mournful hymns did hush the night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CII"

In this change is my invention spent - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CV"

All their praises are but prophecies - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

In the chronicle of wasted time - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

Making beautiful old time - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

Had eyes to wonder - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

But lack tongues to praise - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

Dreaming on things to come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVII"

Proclaims olives of endless age - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVII"

Tyrants' crests and tombs of brass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVII"

Never say that I was false - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CIX"

The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXI"

No form delivers to the heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIII"

Drink up the monarch's plague - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIV"

My judgment knew no reason why - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXV"

Fearing of Time's tyranny - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXV"

Looks on tempests and is never shaken - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

The star to every wandering bark - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

Within his bending sickle's compass come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

Even to the edge of doom - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

Hoisted sail to all the winds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVII"

Learn and find the lesson true - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVIII"

What potions have I drunk of Siren tears - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIX"

Distill'd from limbecks foul - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIX"

Under my transgression bow - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXX"

How hard true sorrow hits - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXX"

Full character'd with lasting memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXII"

To import forgetfulness in me - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXII"

Pyramids built up with newer might - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIII"

Builded far from accident - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"

Under the blow of thralled discontent - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"

On leases of short-number'd hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"

Laid great bases for eternity - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXV"

Too much rent for compound sweet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXV"

Hold Time's fickle glass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVI"

Slander'd with a bastard shame - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVII"

With Art's false borrowed face - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVII"

Sland'ring creation with a false esteem - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVII"

Expense of spirit - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 129"

Hated as a swallowed bait - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 129"

Whose beauties proudly make them cruel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXI"

Put on black and loving mourners be - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXII"

For that deep wound it gives - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"

A torment thrice three-fold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"

Use rigour in my jail - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"

Corrupt by over-partial looks - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVII"

Swears that she is made of truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVIII"

Unlearned in the world's false subtleties - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVIII"

Call not me to justify the wrong - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIX"

Do not press my tongue-tied patience - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"

Mad slanderers by mad ears believed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"

A thousand errors note - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLI"

Have profan'd their scarlet ornaments - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLII"

To win me soon to hell - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIV"

Would corrupt my saint to be a devil - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIV"

One angel in another's hell - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIV"

Fooled by these rebel powers - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"

Inheritors of this excess - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"

In selling hours of dross - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"

Which have no correspondence with true sight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLVIII"

Vexed with watching and with tears - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLVIII"

Spend revenge upon myself - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIX"

No want of conscience hold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLI"

For I have sworn deep oaths - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLII"

Cupid laid by his brand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLIII"

Against strange maladies a sovereign cure - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLIII"

Where Cupid got new fire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLIII"

That weave their thread with bones - Shakespeare Twelfth Night

And pleased with what he gets - William Shakespeare "Under the Greenwood Tree"

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