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Being some lines from the plays and poems of William Shakespeare collected and arranged by Hy Brett |
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I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes With the memorials and things of fame That do renown this city. Twelfth Night Act III, Scene iii |
| Bronx Zoo A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. Midsummer Night's Dream V.i Brooklyn O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! brave new world, That has such people in't!" Tempest V.i Cartier's Win her with gifts, if she respect not words: Dumb jewels often in their silent kind More than quick words do move a woman's mind. Two Gents from Verona III.i Central Park In the wood, where often you and I, Upon faint primrose-bed were want to lie, Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet. Midsummer I.i City Hall Park Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court? As You Like It II.i City University of New York Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. Hamlet I.i Coney Island Parachute Jump O Hamlet! what a falling-off was there. Hamlet I.v Consolidated Edison But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? Romeo &Juliet II.ii Dial A Date Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again? Much Ado About Nothing I.i Ellis Island National Monument Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes here. King John II.i Empire State Building The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces. Tempest IV.9 General Post Office Building Was not that letter from fair Jessica? Merchant of Venice II.iv Grand Central Station Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. Twelfth Night II.iii Greenwood Cemetery All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. Hamlet I.ii Hudson River I will tell you my drift. Much Ado II.i Inwood Hill Park But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. Hamlet I.i Jacob K. Javits Convention Center A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. Merchant of Venice II.vii Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty. Venus &Adonis line 853 LaGuardia Airport Fly further off, my lord, fly further off; Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord. Julius Caesar V.iii Little Italy Those girls of Italy, take heed of them. All's Well That Ends Well II.i Love Lane The kiss you take is better than you give. Troilus & Cressida IV.v Lower East Side From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed. All's Well That Ends Well II.iii Madison Avenue Go, sound thy trumpet in the market-place. Coriolanus I.v Metropolitan Opera What a caterwauling do you keep here! Twelfth Night II.iii Nathan Hale, Statue of Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense. King Lear V.iii National Museum of the American Indian Let his arms alone; They were not born for bondage. Cymbeline V.iv New York Aquarium Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Pericles I.ii New York Post, The Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily. Romeo & Juliet II.v Queens Botanical Garden I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. Midsummer II.i Radio City Music Hall For revels, dances, masks and merry hours Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers. Love's Labor Lost IV.iii Rockefeller Center How like a dream is this I see and hear! Two Gentlemen of Verona V.iv Roosevelt Island Aerial Tramway Fly, and make your peace with Caesar. Antony & Cleopatra III.xi Sailors' Snug Harbor I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die ashore. Tempest II.i St. Patrick's Cathedral Now, God be praised, that to believing souls Gives Light in darkness, comfort in despair! Henry VI, Part 2 I.iii Staten Island Ferry And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea That almost burst the deck. Pericles IV.i Temple Emanu-el There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. Tempest I.ii Theater District 'Tis ten to one this play can never please All that are here: some come to take their ease, And sleep an act or two. Henry VIII Epilogue United Nations For friendly counsel cuts off many foes. Henry VI, Part 1 III.i Wall Street and the Financial District We ready are to try our fortunes to the last man. Henry IV, Part 2 IV.ii World Trade Center Observation Tower Go, some of you convey him to the tower. Richard II IV.i
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