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  2. Sonnet 57 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 57 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 57 is connected with Sonnet 58 which pursues the theme of the poet as a slave of the beloved.

  3. Phrases from Hamlet in common English - Wikipedia

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    This phrase is sometimes mistakenly rendered as "to the manor born", and used to mean 'of the privileged class”; see references for more on this one. In recent years this misconception has spread through the popularity of the British sitcom To the Manor Born, the title of which was a deliberate pun on Shakespeare's phrase.)

  4. Sonnet 136 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 136 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.

  5. Sonnet 135 - Wikipedia

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    The meter demands a few variant pronunciations: line 5's "spacious" and line 7's "gracious" must each fill out three syllables, while line 11's "being" functions as one. [ 2 ] Analysis

  6. Sonnet 20 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126), the subject of the sonnet is widely interpreted as being male, thereby raising questions about the sexuality of its author.

  7. Sonnet 53 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 53 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of this form, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in a type of poetic metre called iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.

  8. Sonnet 13 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 13 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence.. In the sonnet, the speaker declares his admiration and love for the beauty of youth, but warns this figure of youth that he will lose it if he doesn't revitalize himself through offspring.

  9. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    When you have seen one, you have seen them all; What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the tombs; What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over; Where there is a will there is a way; Where there is muck there is brass; Where there is life there is hope [37] Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right