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“The” Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr ... - Page 43
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...jutty his confounded base. Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the o p (Ill, i) 57 From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night. The hum of either army stilly sounds,...
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Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading

Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 384 pages
...connotation: "Stiffen the sinews," Henry urges before Harfleur, "Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, / Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit / To his full height! ... I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start" (3.1.7, 15-17, 31-32)....
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Four Histories

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pages
...the sea) 111.1.7 conjure. Almost all editions follow 1 3 jutty his confounded hase beetle over its Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To...war-proof! Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought, 2o And sheathed their swords for lack of argument....
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Patton: Genius for War, A

Carlo D'Este - 1996 - 1028 pages
...the sinews, summon up the blood Then lend the eye a terrible aspect Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide Hold hard the breath and bend up every...spirit To his full height! On, On you noblest English! It was years before I found out ... that it was from Act III of Shakespeare's Henry V, but my sister...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height! On, on, you noble English, Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof, Fathers that like so many Alexanders Have...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth, and stretch the 3 `| 3 noble English, Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof ! — Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,...
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Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon

W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - 1996 - 356 pages
...nature with hard-favoured rage: Then lend the eye a terrible aspect: Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide. Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height! (III.1.6-9, 15-17) Look at the verbs in these two passages. Does anything strike you about them? Discussion...
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The Carnivores

R. F. Ewer - 1998 - 546 pages
...action of the tiger. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. More recently Wilz (1970) has shown the same principle in action in the stickleback. The performance...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 52

Stanley Wells - 2003 - 354 pages
...directly as surely those working on the stage in i599 would have done with such lines as the following: On, on, you noblest English, Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof. [ . . . J And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture....
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Henry V

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 164 pages
...jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up every...from fathers of war-proof: Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,55 Have in these parts from morn till even fought, 20 And sheathed their swords for lack...
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