Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1840 - 340 pages |
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Page 38
... Parliament . Thomas of Woodstock , Duke of Gloucester , † one of the King's paternal uncles , had taken an active ... parliamentary commission , which , in the year 1386 , virtually - nay , avowedly - superseded the king , now twenty ...
... Parliament . Thomas of Woodstock , Duke of Gloucester , † one of the King's paternal uncles , had taken an active ... parliamentary commission , which , in the year 1386 , virtually - nay , avowedly - superseded the king , now twenty ...
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... Parliament , he died at that place , under circumstances which are still in obscurity . Holinshed says that upon the report of a judge , who had been sent to examine him , that he had confessed treason , the King sent the Earl Marshal ...
... Parliament , he died at that place , under circumstances which are still in obscurity . Holinshed says that upon the report of a judge , who had been sent to examine him , that he had confessed treason , the King sent the Earl Marshal ...
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... Parliament , under the House of Lancaster , is not to be depended upon . The Parliament met in 1398 at Shrewsbury , and Hereford obtained for himself a full pardon for all past offences , and then preferred a charge of treason against ...
... Parliament , under the House of Lancaster , is not to be depended upon . The Parliament met in 1398 at Shrewsbury , and Hereford obtained for himself a full pardon for all past offences , and then preferred a charge of treason against ...
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... parliamentary committee , which award- ed a trial by combat : this , however , was prevented ( as in the play ) by the banishment of the accuser for six years , and of the accused for life . " Of the political mysteries , " says Hallam ...
... parliamentary committee , which award- ed a trial by combat : this , however , was prevented ( as in the play ) by the banishment of the accuser for six years , and of the accused for life . " Of the political mysteries , " says Hallam ...
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... Parliament . The reason assigned , “ to avoid troubles and quarrels between the two dukes and their friends , " does not appear to justify the banishment of both . From the injunction , that when in exile they should not meet , it may ...
... Parliament . The reason assigned , “ to avoid troubles and quarrels between the two dukes and their friends , " does not appear to justify the banishment of both . From the injunction , that when in exile they should not meet , it may ...
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Page 85 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Page 96 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Page 110 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 88 - Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 90 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 196 - This day is call'd the feast of Crispian : He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Page 195 - O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day ! King Henry. What 's he that wishes so ? My cousin Westmoreland ? No, my fair cousin : If we are mark'd to die, we are enow *> To do our country loss ; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
Page 299 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Page 142 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 126 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...