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" When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough : — this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. "
The plays and poems of Shakspeare [according to the text of E. Malone] with ... - Page 114
by William Shakespeare - 1833
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 470 pages
...And food for — [Dies. P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weav'd ambition , how much art thou shrunk ! When that this...contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; Bat now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough : — this earth that bears thee dead , Bears...
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Narrative of the Late Victorious Campaigns in Affghanistan: Under General ...

Joseph Greenwood - 1844 - 396 pages
...How truly do the words of our immortal poet apply to the sad fate of the Great Napoleon ! Ill weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. We passed the island with a spanking breeze, and in a few days made Ascension, of turtle notoriety....
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 506 pages
...time, which, with all its dominion over sublunary things, must itself at last be stopped. JOHNSON. When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...vilest earth Is room enough : — This earth that bears the dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...well, great heart ! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contnin a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ;...vilest earth Is room enough: — this earth that bears tbec dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, 1 should not make...
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Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...dust, And food for [Dies P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy: Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk When that this...earth Is room enough : — This earth, that bears thee deac Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so...
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The Dramatic Works of W. Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...And food for [Dies. P. Hen. For worm», brave Percy ; Fare thee well, gri'iit heart ! — Ill-weav'd n both! Len. May it please SCENE IV. AcrV. Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not...
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The Tragedies of Æschylus

Aeschylus - 1849 - 340 pages
...of it doth hold. King Henry IV. part i. act v. sc. 5. Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this'...now, two paces of the* vilest earth Is room enough. 4 Surely the full stop after TTO\IV in v. 749 should be removed, anfl a colon, or mark of hyperbaton...
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Notes and Queries

1903 - 666 pages
...erit. In the ' First Part of Henry IV.' the Prince, when he kills Hotspur, speaks thus :— lll-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. Shakspeare has in ' Uymbeline ' a line with a thought similar to one of Horace, though differently...
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Notes and Queries

1908 - 678 pages
...language. Shakspeare has hit on the same idea in ' Henry IV.' Prince Henry says of the dead Hotspur : — When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. E. YARDLEY. TXS will find "The idols of the marketplace," &c. (ante, p. 129), in the ' Novum Organum,'...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare...: Embracing a Life of ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 590 pages
...the earthy and cold hand of death And food for [Dies. Lies on my tongue.—No, Percy, thou art dust, P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great...bound ; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.—This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible...
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