The Life of King Henry V. Measure for MeasurePresident Publishing Company, 1909 - 147 pages |
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... THOU ART NAMED So SHALL OUR ENGLISH YOUTHS URGE ON , AND CRY AN AGINCOURT ! AN AGINCOURT ! OR DIE . " 1 Cp . Apology for Poetry ( Arber's Reprint , pp . 63 , C ) . 2 Prol . iv . 49-52 . 3 Ben Jonson's Vision on the Muses of his Friend ...
... THOU ART NAMED So SHALL OUR ENGLISH YOUTHS URGE ON , AND CRY AN AGINCOURT ! AN AGINCOURT ! OR DIE . " 1 Cp . Apology for Poetry ( Arber's Reprint , pp . 63 , C ) . 2 Prol . iv . 49-52 . 3 Ben Jonson's Vision on the Muses of his Friend ...
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... thou- sand men - at - arms , and twenty - four thousand archers , and landed at Harfleur August 15. By September 22 the town was brought to an unconditional surrender , and put under the keeping of an English garrison . The English army ...
... thou- sand men - at - arms , and twenty - four thousand archers , and landed at Harfleur August 15. By September 22 the town was brought to an unconditional surrender , and put under the keeping of an English garrison . The English army ...
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... Thou false deluding slave , that feed'st me with the very name of meat . " - H . N. H. 18. " on your imaginary forces work " ; that is , your powers of imagination : imaginary for imaginative . This indifferent use of the active and ...
... Thou false deluding slave , that feed'st me with the very name of meat . " - H . N. H. 18. " on your imaginary forces work " ; that is , your powers of imagination : imaginary for imaginative . This indifferent use of the active and ...
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... thou do , that honor would thee do , Were all thy children kind and natural ! Pope transferred the Prologue to the end of the first scene.— I. G. 19. " kind " ; filial . - C . H. H. But see thy fault ! France hath in thee found 80 ...
... thou do , that honor would thee do , Were all thy children kind and natural ! Pope transferred the Prologue to the end of the first scene.— I. G. 19. " kind " ; filial . - C . H. H. But see thy fault ! France hath in thee found 80 ...
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... thou me host ? Now , by this hand , I swear , I scorn the term ; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers . Host . No , by my troth , not long ; for we can- not lodge and board a dozen or fourteen gen- tlewomen that live honestly by the prick of ...
... thou me host ? Now , by this hand , I swear , I scorn the term ; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers . Host . No , by my troth , not long ; for we can- not lodge and board a dozen or fourteen gen- tlewomen that live honestly by the prick of ...
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Page 23 - Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in. their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil...
Page 95 - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Page 9 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 43 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 6 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
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 ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment.
Page 117 - By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires; But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 63 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war! — 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.
Page 9 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say, — it hath been...
Page 49 - Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell ! ' Host. Nay, sure, he 's not in hell : he 's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child ; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...