 | E. M. Knottenbelt - 1990 - 432 pages
...Compare Hill's opening with the first lines of Henry VI (Part I, Ii1-4): Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times...sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars. As the first half of Hill's sonnet says, whether the stars, or Halley's comet, actually foretold that... | |
 | James Shapiro - 1991 - 234 pages
...correspondence between the two plays Bedford's expression of grief- — Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death (I HENRY VI, 1. 1. 1 -5) — recalls the words of an earlier "scourge," Tamburlaine, in his own remonstrance... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1995 - 388 pages
...— an influence readily apparent in the opening lines of / Henry VI: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death — . . . . (1.i.1-5) clearly transmissible as well. The feeling of 'bloody and insatiate Tamburlaine,'... | |
 | Mary Elsnau - 1996 - 62 pages
...death of princes." And in his Henry VI (Part I, Act I, Sc. 1) is the following: "Comets, iniporting change of times and states, Brandish your crystal...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death." We may smile with sophisticated superiority as we read of the medieval ideas concerning comets, yet... | |
 | Sara Schechner - 1999 - 386 pages
...lines, the Duke of Bedford bewailed the death of his brother, Henry V: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death." Like military banners seen in the distance, menacing apparitions of comets were used by dissidents... | |
 | Ngaio Marsh - 1998 - 260 pages
...seat banged and a voice — Dr. John James Rutherford's — shouted: "Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times...sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars— Repeat," Dr. Rutherford bawled, leaning over the balustrade, "repeat: bad revolting stars. I'm here,... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1999 - 356 pages
...in rhetorical mode and sentiment with the opening of 1H6, eg 1-5; 'Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! / Comets, importing change of...revolting stars / That have consented unto Henry's death!' 9. bowers] eye-sockets (EAJH). 10. tempered] refreshed, gave health to (cf. the sentiment of 11. 44-5... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 192 pages
...Henry VI opens with a dead march and the Duke of Bedford declaiming Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! Comets, importing change of times...sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars .... But dukes have no monopoly of such language. In 2 Henry VI, rv, i, a sea-captain notices that... | |
 | James R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner - 2014 - 208 pages
...King Henry V. They utter the opening lines of / Henry VI: BEDFORD: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night; Comets importing change of times...revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death: King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long, England ne're lost a King of so much worth. GLOUCESTER:... | |
 | Émilien Mohsen - 2005 - 628 pages
...to come, woe, and unrest. First Part of Henry VI (II. iv) Bedford. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death! Exeter. We mourn in black: why mourn we not in blood? What! shall we curse the planets of mishap, That... | |
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HUNG be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! King Henry the Fifth,... 
