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If there is a more concentrated richness of English idioms in a single passage, I’d like to see it: | {{a|drafting|}}If there is a more concentrated richness of English idioms in a single passage, I’d like to see it. It presents the question, what came first: the brilliant idioms, or the fact that they are in so famous a speech? | ||
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{{blue|To be, or not to be: that is the question:}} <br> | {{blue|To be, or not to be: that is the question:}} <br> | ||
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer <br> | Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer <br> | ||
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To grunt and sweat under a weary life,<br> | To grunt and sweat under a weary life,<br> | ||
But that the dread of something after death,<br> | But that the dread of something after death,<br> | ||
The {{|undiscover’d country}} from whose bourn<br> | The {{blue|undiscover’d country}} from whose bourn<br> | ||
No traveller returns, puzzles the will<br> | No traveller returns, puzzles the will<br> | ||
And makes us rather bear those ills we have<br> | And makes us rather bear those ills we have<br> | ||
Than fly to others that we know not of? <br> | Than fly to others that we know not of? <br> | ||
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;<br> | Thus {{blue|conscience does make cowards of us all}};<br> | ||
And thus the native hue of resolution <br> | And thus the native hue of resolution <br> | ||
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,<br> | Is sicklied o’er with {{blue|the pale cast of thought}},<br> | ||
And enterprises of great pith and moment<br> | And enterprises of great pith and moment<br> | ||
With this regard their currents turn awry,<br> | With this regard their currents turn awry,<br> | ||
And lose the name of action.—Soft you now!<br> | And lose the name of action.—Soft you now!<br> | ||
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons<br> | The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons<br> | ||
Be all my sins remember’d.<br> | Be all my sins remember’d.<br>}} | ||