Chapter 11 of All for Love is here in full — 206 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XI
Chapter 11 of All for Love is here in full — 206 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
ANTONY. Say, I command it. VENTIDIUS. If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness. ANTONY.
Chapter 11 of All for Love is here in full — 206 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
From this reading “ANTONY.”
an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
From this reading “Say, I command it.”
plural of “death” — the event of dying or departure from life
From this reading “If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.”
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
From this reading “If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.”
the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
From this reading “If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.”
a condition requiring relief
From this reading “If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.”
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading “If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.”
someone who sees an event and reports what happened
From this reading “If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
From this reading ANTONY.
an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
From this reading Say, I command it.
plural of “death” — the event of dying or departure from life
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Say, I command it.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Say, I command it.
the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
a condition requiring relief
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
not any; not one
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
express in words
From this reading Say, I command it.
express in speech
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading VENTIDIUS.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
someone who sees an event and reports what happened
From this reading If we die well, our deaths will speak themselves And need no living witness.
Chapter 11 of All for Love by John Dryden holds 206 sentences, grouped into 42 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 11 holds 206 sentences of All for Love, unabridged, divided into 42 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of All for Love by John Dryden exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 206 sentences, grouped into 42 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
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