That cannot be; since I am still possess’d
Of those effects for which I did the murder,
May one be pardon’d and retain the offence?
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Romeo and Juliet: Act II Scene VI
–Richard Wilbur
Penny Dreadful 3.07, Ebb Tide
Written by John Logan
Penny Dreadful 3.07, Ebb Tide
Written by John Logan
From the 1891 edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
from Mary Shelley’s preface to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein
From North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855).
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence (via themindmovement)
(i) shakespeare, richard iii (1593)
(ii) shelley, frankenstein (1818)
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