Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1840 - 340 páginas |
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... Arthur had a legitimate claim to the crown of England , that the crown was usurped by his uncle John , and that the King of France , having summoned John , by his ambassador Chatillon , to surrender the crown , forthwith de- clared war ...
... Arthur had a legitimate claim to the crown of England , that the crown was usurped by his uncle John , and that the King of France , having summoned John , by his ambassador Chatillon , to surrender the crown , forthwith de- clared war ...
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... Arthur Plantagenet , lays most lawful claim To this fair island and the territories ; To Ireland , Poitiers , Anjou , Touraine , Maine , Desiring thee to lay aside the sword Which sways usurpingly these several titles , And put the same ...
... Arthur Plantagenet , lays most lawful claim To this fair island and the territories ; To Ireland , Poitiers , Anjou , Touraine , Maine , Desiring thee to lay aside the sword Which sways usurpingly these several titles , And put the same ...
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... Arthur , or whether he hesitated a little ; but it is certain that his hesi- tation did not last , as hostilities soon commenced on the French side of the Channel ; and within a month of Richard's death , a truce of fifty days was ...
... Arthur , or whether he hesitated a little ; but it is certain that his hesi- tation did not last , as hostilities soon commenced on the French side of the Channel ; and within a month of Richard's death , a truce of fifty days was ...
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... Arthur , at this time little more than twelve years old ; and had taken his homage for the trans- marine possessions of his deceased uncle , as well as for his own province of Brittany : and he began a war by invading the duchy of ...
... Arthur , at this time little more than twelve years old ; and had taken his homage for the trans- marine possessions of his deceased uncle , as well as for his own province of Brittany : and he began a war by invading the duchy of ...
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... Arthur , now cherished a true one with great ex- pectations , according to an opinion predicted in grand and celebrated stories concerning Arthur . " * I do not know precisely what the great deeds were , which the fabulous Arthur of old ...
... Arthur , now cherished a true one with great ex- pectations , according to an opinion predicted in grand and celebrated stories concerning Arthur . " * I do not know precisely what the great deeds were , which the fabulous Arthur of old ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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 doth 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 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 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 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 88 - Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
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 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 195 - O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day ! King Henry. What 's he that wishes so ? My cousin Westmoreland ? No, my fair cousin : If we are mark'd to die, we are enow *> To do our country loss ; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
Página 299 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Página 142 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Página 126 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, 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...