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... perhaps , have been more just , a few years ago . If I am right in supposing that , since the days of my childhood , the English youth had be- come less and less familiar with Shakspeare , there are symptoms , within a very few years ...
... perhaps , have been more just , a few years ago . If I am right in supposing that , since the days of my childhood , the English youth had be- come less and less familiar with Shakspeare , there are symptoms , within a very few years ...
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... perhaps of the " Merry Wives of Windsor , " said to have been written by royal command , ) there is an original to be found , in the shape of an Italian novel or otherwise . Some even of his historical plays were formed , not ...
... perhaps of the " Merry Wives of Windsor , " said to have been written by royal command , ) there is an original to be found , in the shape of an Italian novel or otherwise . Some even of his historical plays were formed , not ...
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... perhaps , find reason to lament his adherence to historical models , rather than his departure from them . Coleridge is of opinion , and I think that he is right , that only striking and poetical events can be pleasantly dramatised ...
... perhaps , find reason to lament his adherence to historical models , rather than his departure from them . Coleridge is of opinion , and I think that he is right , that only striking and poetical events can be pleasantly dramatised ...
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... perhaps still lingers among the mountains of Wales , or in the patriotic breast of my friend Charles Wynn , concerning the name of Arthur ; and that name was given to the prince , with great solemnity , at his baptism . " And thus ...
... perhaps still lingers among the mountains of Wales , or in the patriotic breast of my friend Charles Wynn , concerning the name of Arthur ; and that name was given to the prince , with great solemnity , at his baptism . " And thus ...
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... perhaps have produced inte- resting scenes . Although Philip , in his fruitless negociation with John , had demanded Anjou and other provinces for Arthur , he made use of his auxiliary force in a way more conducive to his own interests ...
... perhaps have produced inte- resting scenes . Although Philip , in his fruitless negociation with John , had demanded Anjou and other provinces for Arthur , he made use of his auxiliary force in a way more conducive to his own interests ...
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Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1 Thomas Peregrine Courtenay Visualização integral - 1840 |
Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1 Thomas Peregrine Courtenay Visualização integral - 1840 |
Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1 Thomas Peregrine Courtenay Visualização integral - 1840 |
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Agincourt Anjou appears archbishop Arthur authority battle battle of Agincourt battle of Shrewsbury Beaufort Bishop blood Bolingbroke Bosw brother Cardinal character charge Chronicle command council crown daughter Dauphin death Duke of Bedford Duke of Burgundy Duke of Exeter Duke of Gloucester Duke of Orleans Duke of York Earl Elmham enemies England English father favour followed France French give Hardyng Harfleur hast hath Henry the Fifth Henry the Fourth Henry's historians historical plays Holinshed honour Hotspur John of Gaunt King John king's Lingard Lord Malone marriage mentioned Mortimer Mowbray murder Nicolas noble Northumberland old play Orleans Otterbourne parliament passage peace Percy person poet prince prisoner quarrel Queen realm reign Richard Plantagenet Richard the Second Salisbury says scene Scrope Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's slain soldiers Somerset speech story Stow Suffolk Talbot thee Thomas thou tion treason Tyler uncle unto Wales Walsingham Warwick Westmoreland Winchester young
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Página 68 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas, poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As, in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Página 85 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Página 96 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Página 183 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding— which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Página 110 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Página 183 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more ; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility...
Página 90 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Página 126 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
Página 196 - This day is call'd the feast of Crispian : He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Página 127 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds...