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Shakspeare's Mental Photographs

Chapter 6: QUESTION V. WHAT STYLE OF BEAUTY DO YOU ADMIRE?
By William Shakespeare
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A parlor-game anthology that collects short lines from Shakespeare's plays and arranges them as answers to ten conversational prompts. Each prompt—covering identity, admired qualities, occupations, aversions, styles of beauty, ideals, first meetings and greetings, wishes, and futures—offers twenty numbered quotations cited by play and scene. Readers are invited to select responses to compose quick character portraits or to prompt social play, using dramatic utterances to suggest temperament, desire, and fate. The arrangement functions as both a compact quotation compendium and a playful instrument for improvisation, showcasing the variety of moods and voices across the dramatic works.

QUESTION V.
 
WHAT STYLE OF BEAUTY DO YOU ADMIRE?

1.  Her hair is auburn.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iv. Scene 4.
2.  A sweet-faced man.
Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act i. Scene 2.
3.  She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Scene 1.
4.  Her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece.
Merchant of Venice. Act i. Scene 1.
5.  Her hair, what color?
Brown, Madam: and her forehead is as low
As she would wish it.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 3.
6.  As plays the sun upon the glassy streams,
Twinkling another counterfeited beam,
So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.
Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Scene 3.
7.  A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue
eye and sunken; which you have not: an
unquestionable spirit; which you have not.
As You Like It. Act iii. Scene 2.
8.  Her eyes are gray as glass.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iv. Scene 4.
9.  There is never a fair woman has a true face.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.
10.  Item, two lips indifferent red; item, two gray
eyes with lids to them; item, one neck, one
chin, and so forth.
Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 5.
11.  She is fair, and fairer than that word,—
Of wondrous virtues.
Merchant of Venice. Act i. Scene 1.
12.  Straight and slender; and as brown in hue as hazel-nuts.
Taming of the Shrew. Act ii. Scene 1.
13.  The April’s in her eyes; It is love’s spring,
And these the showers to bring it on.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 2.
14.  Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty.
Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 5.
15.  Her sight did ravish; but her grace in speech,
Her words y-clad with wisdom’s majesty,
Makes me from wondering, fall to weeping joys,
Such is the fulness of my heart’s content.
Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 1.
16.  A fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face
is not worth sun-burning, that never looks
in his glass for love of anything he sees
there.
Henry V. Act v. Scene 2.
17.  There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple;
If the ill spirit have so fair an house,
Good things will strive to dwell with ’t.
Tempest. Act i. Scene 2.
18.  He’s as tall a man as any’s in Illyria.
Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 3.
19.  Fam’d for mildness, peace, and prayer.
Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 1.
20.  A gray eye or so.
Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Scene 4.