 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1850 - 144 pages
...proper arm, to guard Their own blest isle against a leaguing world." THOMPSON'S Liberty. " 111 weaVd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough." SHAKSPEARE. The greater part of the world is still in heathen ignorance and superstition, imperfectly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 606 pages
...lor [Dies. Lies on my tongue.—No, Percy, thou art dust, P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 546 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...thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so great» a show of zeal : — But let my favours'" hide thy mangled face ; And, even in thy behalf,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 548 pages
...dust, And food for [Diet. P. HEN. For worms, brave Percy: Fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this...thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so great* a show of zeal : — But let my favours'1 hide thy mangled face ; And, even in thy behalf, I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 544 pages
...% And food for [Dies. P. HEN. For worms, brave Percy : Fare thee well, great heart ! — Dl-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this...earth Is room enough : — This earth, that bears thee clc:id, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make... | |
 | 1851 - 554 pages
...PASSAGES. In Shakspeare's Henry IV., Act V. Sc. 4., the Prince exclaims, beholding Percy's corpse, — " When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough I " In Ovid we find the following parallel : — " jacet ccce Tibullus, Vix manet e toto parva quod... | |
 | Juvenal - 1852 - 596 pages
...days, hence called aapKoipayof. Plin. ii. 96 : xxxvi. 17. Cf. Henry's speech to Hotspur's body : . " Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When...now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough." So Hall : " Fond fool ! six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find... | |
 | Marmion W. Savage - 1852 - 378 pages
...mark. Like Percy's, my heart was great, too great; and Harry's farewell may be my soliloquy :— " ' Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When...small a bound, But now two paces of the vilest earth Will soon be room enough.' " A tear rolled down the old man's hollow cheek when he came to the last... | |
 | 1853 - 582 pages
...was great, too great ; and Harry's farewell may be my soliloquy — ' Ill-weaved ambition, how ranch art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a...small a bound, But now two paces of the vilest earth Will soon be room enough.' " A tear rolled down the old man's hollow cheek when he came to the last... | |
 | Decimus Junius Juvenalis - 1852 - 596 pages
...xxxvi. 17. Cf. Henry's speech to Hotspur's body: " Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! AVhen that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for...now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough." So Hall : " Fond fool ! six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find... | |
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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. 
