 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...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...bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so dear a show of zeal:— But let my favours... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1839 - 490 pages
...worms, brave Percy : Fare thee well, great Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When lhat this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was...This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so brave a gentleman. Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven! This day's defeat sleep with thee... | |
 | Juvenal - 1839 - 570 pages
...apostrophe of Prince Henry to the lifeless remains of Hotspur : " Fare thee well, great heart! 111-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this...now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough!" KH iv. pt. i. AV sc. iv. The reader of taste and feelmj will be pleased with the following exquisite... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 572 pages
...tongue.—No, Percy, thou art dust, And food for [Dies. P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this...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... | |
 | Orson Welles - 1988 - 356 pages
...Content. This chair shall be my state" (11.iv.415). Hal summarizes the effect, after Hotspur is dead, with When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound. (V.iv.89-90) The stillness when he says this, at the close of the battle, is the moment when his royalty... | |
 | Lars Engle - 1993 - 284 pages
...diminished and thus potentially on how much Hal has expanded: Fare thee well, great heart! Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this...bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy I should not make so dear a show of zeal; But let my favours hide... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien - 1994 - 244 pages
...chivalry upon him in his generous tribute to the dead Hotspur: Fare thee well, great heart. Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this...bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. (5.4.89-95) Hal's detractors will say it is easy for winners to be generous. Maybe so, but not all... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pages
...dust, And food for - He dies PRINCE HAL For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart! Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk. When that this...small a bound. But now two paces of the vilest earth 90 74 Well said well done! 82 / could prophesy. Prophecy was associ75 hoy's child's ated with dying... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pages
...alter-ego and sparring partner, Hotspur, finishes the unfinished line: 'For worms, brave Percy. . . When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.' (I Henry /KV.4.76) Dramatic presentation is sometimes accused of being unrealistic when the dying,... | |
 | James Howe - 1994 - 290 pages
...alternatives his world has seemed to offer. He speaks first to his most recent choice, saying of Hotspur, When that this body did contain a spirit A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. (5.4.89-92) Its danger past, Percy's ambition is seen to reflect a noble spirit. Nonetheless, Hal's... | |
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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. 
