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Page vii
... shaking off the chains of Papacy . For this he is excommunicated and the country is laid under an interdict , while invasion is threatened by the French , Spaniards and Northmen in aid of the Papal cause . To save his country from these ...
... shaking off the chains of Papacy . For this he is excommunicated and the country is laid under an interdict , while invasion is threatened by the French , Spaniards and Northmen in aid of the Papal cause . To save his country from these ...
Page xiv
... Shake- speare practically took over the old play as it stood . The earlier dramatist took his material from Holinshed's Chronicles , handled it to suit his own purposes , and cared not a jot for fidelity to his original . It is a far ...
... Shake- speare practically took over the old play as it stood . The earlier dramatist took his material from Holinshed's Chronicles , handled it to suit his own purposes , and cared not a jot for fidelity to his original . It is a far ...
Page xxix
... Shake- speare's son Hamnet died in August , 1596 , and the lamen- tations of Constance for her captive son are partly an expression of Shakespeare's own grief . ( 2 ) Chatillon's speech , Act II . sc . i . , “ a braver choice of ...
... Shake- speare's son Hamnet died in August , 1596 , and the lamen- tations of Constance for her captive son are partly an expression of Shakespeare's own grief . ( 2 ) Chatillon's speech , Act II . sc . i . , “ a braver choice of ...
Page xxx
... Shake- speare deliberately chose to keep close to his " source " in so many respects , and therefore did not allow his own genius full play , and secondly , by the fact that , in any case , the plays were written within a very short XXX ...
... Shake- speare deliberately chose to keep close to his " source " in so many respects , and therefore did not allow his own genius full play , and secondly , by the fact that , in any case , the plays were written within a very short XXX ...
Page 4
... Shake- speare gives four syllables to Plan- tagenet . 10. island ] One is here tempted to keep the older and more correct form " iland " as printed in F 1. Compare Milton's Comus , line 50 : “ On Circe's iland fell . " 10. the ...
... Shake- speare gives four syllables to Plan- tagenet . 10. island ] One is here tempted to keep the older and more correct form " iland " as printed in F 1. Compare Milton's Comus , line 50 : “ On Circe's iland fell . " 10. the ...
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Page 81 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 95 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 104 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news, Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean, unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death.
Page 88 - To be more prince) as may be. You are sad. Hub. Indeed, I have been merrier. Arth. Mercy on me! Methinks, nobody should be sad but I : Yet, I remember, when I was in France, Young gentlemen would be as sad as night, Only for wantonness. By my Christendom, So I were out of prison, and kept sheep, I should be as merry as the day is long...
Page 90 - And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you : But you at your sick service had a prince. Nay, you may think my love was crafty love, And call it cunning : do, an if you will. If Heaven be pleased that you must use me ill, Why, then you must.
Page 82 - There's nothing in this world, can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields naught, but shame and bitterness.
Page 105 - John. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour than advis'd respect.
Page 145 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.