The Life of King Henry V: With Notes, Introduction and GlossaryHolt, 1905 - 115 pages |
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Page viii
... French , likewise , formed one of the branches in which the poet attained considerable proficiency , as the dialogues in that language in Henry V. undeniably prove . Some writers have found difficulty in accounting for Shakespeare's ...
... French , likewise , formed one of the branches in which the poet attained considerable proficiency , as the dialogues in that language in Henry V. undeniably prove . Some writers have found difficulty in accounting for Shakespeare's ...
Page xxi
... , for the sake of contrast , as well as for patriotic reasons , has grossly exaggerated the levity and over - confidence of the French . of the action , instructive departures from the Chronicle will xxi KING HENRY V. Introduction.
... , for the sake of contrast , as well as for patriotic reasons , has grossly exaggerated the levity and over - confidence of the French . of the action , instructive departures from the Chronicle will xxi KING HENRY V. Introduction.
Page xxii
... French provinces only ; but he followed this up by a declaration of his right to the French crown . The French repudiated the claim ( which was really a most shadowy one ) , and Henry determined to invade France to enforce it . In this ...
... French provinces only ; but he followed this up by a declaration of his right to the French crown . The French repudiated the claim ( which was really a most shadowy one ) , and Henry determined to invade France to enforce it . In this ...
Page xxiii
... French against the Dauphin . Philip , the new Duke of Burgundy ( Shakespeare makes no distinction between father and son ) , thereupon entered into an agreement with Henry . On May 21st , Henry , the French Queen , and the Duke of ...
... French against the Dauphin . Philip , the new Duke of Burgundy ( Shakespeare makes no distinction between father and son ) , thereupon entered into an agreement with Henry . On May 21st , Henry , the French Queen , and the Duke of ...
Page xxiv
... French campaign when he was attacked by an illness , which proved fatal , at Vincennes , August 31st , 1422 . He was only thirty - five when he thus died , at the very height of his fame and power . Charles VI . survived him by less ...
... French campaign when he was attacked by an illness , which proved fatal , at Vincennes , August 31st , 1422 . He was only thirty - five when he thus died , at the very height of his fame and power . Charles VI . survived him by less ...
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Page lxxxi - 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...
Page lxxxi - a should not think of God ; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet: So, 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet : I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone ; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Page cxxiv - God : war is his beadle, war is his vengeance ; so that here men are punished, for before-breach of the king's laws, in now the king's quarrel : where they feared the death they have borne life away ; ( and where they would be safe they perish : Then if they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of their damnation, than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the king's : but every subject's soul is his own.
Page cxxxiv - To do our country loss ; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will ! I pray thee, wish not one man more. 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, [ am the most offending soul alive.
Page xliv - Think , when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' th' receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times...
Page cxxxiv - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart ; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page cxxviii - God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts; Possess them not with fear ; take from them now The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers Pluck their hearts from them ! — Not to-day, O Lord, O, not to-day, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown...
Page cxxvii - tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The inter-tissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world...
Page xliv - 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...
Page cxxxv - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered : 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...