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Honest Williams , concerned for the state of his soul before battle , gives us the following vivid glimpse of the stricken field : But if the cause be not good , the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make , when all those legs ...
Honest Williams , concerned for the state of his soul before battle , gives us the following vivid glimpse of the stricken field : But if the cause be not good , the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make , when all those legs ...
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Such battle , if fought to the death as at Thermopylae , or till victory as at Bannockburn , by a body of men united in affection and loyalty under an indomitable leader , has always appeared in their eyes the finest of war - plays .
Such battle , if fought to the death as at Thermopylae , or till victory as at Bannockburn , by a body of men united in affection and loyalty under an indomitable leader , has always appeared in their eyes the finest of war - plays .
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Yet Shakespeare makes it central to his account of the battle . Indeed , it is almost the only aspect of it he sets upon the stage ; for though the hubris of the French , which was the primary cause of their overthrow1 , is well brought ...
Yet Shakespeare makes it central to his account of the battle . Indeed , it is almost the only aspect of it he sets upon the stage ; for though the hubris of the French , which was the primary cause of their overthrow1 , is well brought ...
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| Title | The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11 The New Cambridge Shakespeare The New Shakespeare The Works of Shakespeare, Arthur Quiller-Couch |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editors | Arthur Quiller-Couch, John Dover Wilson, James Coutts Maxwell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1947 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Aug 2012 |
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