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Page xi
... death of the queen , who is said to have com- plained that the tragedy of Richard II . was " played with seditious intent forty times in open streets and houses . " 66 No complete edition of King Henry V. was published till the First ...
... death of the queen , who is said to have com- plained that the tragedy of Richard II . was " played with seditious intent forty times in open streets and houses . " 66 No complete edition of King Henry V. was published till the First ...
Page xii
... death from a riotous gallant to a sober and heroic administrator with occasional lapses into unwisdom and cruelty , is to misread altogether Shakespeare's picture of his favourite king . In this point , the dramatist had the courage to ...
... death from a riotous gallant to a sober and heroic administrator with occasional lapses into unwisdom and cruelty , is to misread altogether Shakespeare's picture of his favourite king . In this point , the dramatist had the courage to ...
Page xvii
... death in his cell at Silexedra ; bequeathed to Philau- tus ' sons nursed up with their father in England : fetcht from the Canaries by T. L. Gent . " To the characters herein provided , Shakespeare added the delightful Audrey ...
... death in his cell at Silexedra ; bequeathed to Philau- tus ' sons nursed up with their father in England : fetcht from the Canaries by T. L. Gent . " To the characters herein provided , Shakespeare added the delightful Audrey ...
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... death is neere , Therefore exhale.1 1 draw sword 60 Bar . Heare me , heare me what I say : Hee that strikes the first stroake , Ile run him up to the hilts , as I am a sol- dier . [ Draws . ] Pist . An oath of mickle might , and fury ...
... death is neere , Therefore exhale.1 1 draw sword 60 Bar . Heare me , heare me what I say : Hee that strikes the first stroake , Ile run him up to the hilts , as I am a sol- dier . [ Draws . ] Pist . An oath of mickle might , and fury ...
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... death and treachery . II Sound Trumpets . Enter the King , Scroope , Cambridge , and Gray [ and Attendants ] . King . Now sits the winde faire , and we will aboord . My Lord of Cambridge , and my kinde Lord of Masham , And you my gentle ...
... death and treachery . II Sound Trumpets . Enter the King , Scroope , Cambridge , and Gray [ and Attendants ] . King . Now sits the winde faire , and we will aboord . My Lord of Cambridge , and my kinde Lord of Masham , And you my gentle ...
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Page 41 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 39 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Page 81 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered.
Page 5 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 68 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night : for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and, being taken with the cramp, was drowned ; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos.
Page 6 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts — Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 16 - The act of order * to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds...
Page 65 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 41 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger ; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now...
Page 42 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England! and saint George ! [Exeunt.