King Henry the Fifth: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and FamiliesGinn & Company, 1887 - 194 pages |
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... John in it , and make you merry with fair Catharine of France . " Whether this promise was directly authorized by Shakespeare , we cannot positively say , as that Epilogue was probably not of his writing ; but there is little doubt that ...
... John in it , and make you merry with fair Catharine of France . " Whether this promise was directly authorized by Shakespeare , we cannot positively say , as that Epilogue was probably not of his writing ; but there is little doubt that ...
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... John was not made good . Falstaff does not once appear in the play . I suspect that , when the author went to planning the drama , he saw the impracticability of making any thing more out of him ; while there was at least some danger ...
... John was not made good . Falstaff does not once appear in the play . I suspect that , when the author went to planning the drama , he saw the impracticability of making any thing more out of him ; while there was at least some danger ...
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... John , upon his departure , should leave some audible vibrations in the air behind him . The last of these dies away upon the ear when Fluellen uses him to point a moral ; and this reference , so queerly characteristic of the speaker ...
... John , upon his departure , should leave some audible vibrations in the air behind him . The last of these dies away upon the ear when Fluellen uses him to point a moral ; and this reference , so queerly characteristic of the speaker ...
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... John ; and they serve the double purpose of car- rying into the new scenes the memory of the King's former associations , and also of evincing the King's present severity and rectitude of discipline . They thus help to bridge over the ...
... John ; and they serve the double purpose of car- rying into the new scenes the memory of the King's former associations , and also of evincing the King's present severity and rectitude of discipline . They thus help to bridge over the ...
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... John . At all events , whatever perils there might be in such companionship , I must needs think that even in the haunts of Eastcheap , as Shakespeare orders them , the Prince had a larger and richer school of practical wisdom ; that he ...
... John . At all events , whatever perils there might be in such companionship , I must needs think that even in the haunts of Eastcheap , as Shakespeare orders them , the Prince had a larger and richer school of practical wisdom ; that he ...
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Agincourt Alice Bard Bardolph Bates battle battle of Agincourt behold blood brother Cant Captain Cath Catharine Chorus Collier's second folio Constable Constable of France correction crown Dauphin doth Duke Duke of Burgundy Duke of York Earl England English Enter King HENRY Exeter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Falstaff fear Fluellen folio reads France French give GLOSTER glove goot Gower grace hand Harfleur Harry hath heart Henry the Fifth herald Holinshed honour horse humour imbar Julius Cæsar Kate King's leek liege look Lord Macedon Macmorris Majesty matter meaning mind Montjoy mouth never night noble numbers old text reads orld passage Pist Pistol play Poet Poet's Prince quartos ransom Salique SCENE Scroop sense Shakespeare soldiers soul speak spirit sword tell thee thing thou thought Twelfth Night unto valour Warwick word
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Page 85 - 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 74 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any Christom child ; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en at turning o' the tide ; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 52 - 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, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor...
Page 130 - I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England: God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour, As one man more, methinks , would share from me, For the best hope I have. O , do not wish one more ! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart...
Page 84 - 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 27 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out, For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, Which is both healthful, and good husbandry : Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all ; admonishing, That we should 'dress us fairly for our end. Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Page 131 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Page 188 - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say To-morrow is Saint Crispian :' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Page 130 - If we are mark'd to die, we are enough To do our country loss ; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
Page 122 - And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony ? And what art thou, thou idol ceremony ? What kind of god art thou, that suffer...