Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1840 - 340 páginas |
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Thomas Peregrine Courtenay. 932 0865 Printed by J. L. Cox and SONS , 75 , Great Queen Street , Lincoln's Inn Fields . PREFACE . THE greater part of the following Commentaries was.
Thomas Peregrine Courtenay. 932 0865 Printed by J. L. Cox and SONS , 75 , Great Queen Street , Lincoln's Inn Fields . PREFACE . THE greater part of the following Commentaries was.
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... Queen Elinor , the king's mother , was sore against her nephew Arthur , rather moved thereto by envy conceived against his mother , than upon any just occasion given on behalf of the child ; for that she saw if he were king , how that ...
... Queen Elinor , the king's mother , was sore against her nephew Arthur , rather moved thereto by envy conceived against his mother , than upon any just occasion given on behalf of the child ; for that she saw if he were king , how that ...
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... queen - mother went to fetch her . 66 K. John . Then do I give Volquessen , Touraine , Maine , Poictiers , and Anjou , these five provinces , With her to thee ; and this addition more , Full thirty thousand marks of English coin . " + ...
... queen - mother went to fetch her . 66 K. John . Then do I give Volquessen , Touraine , Maine , Poictiers , and Anjou , these five provinces , With her to thee ; and this addition more , Full thirty thousand marks of English coin . " + ...
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... queen ) , 66 being now desirous to procure some trouble also unto King John , joined himself with Arthur Duke of Britain , and found means to cause them of Poitou ( a people ever subject to rebellion ) to revolt from King John , and to ...
... queen ) , 66 being now desirous to procure some trouble also unto King John , joined himself with Arthur Duke of Britain , and found means to cause them of Poitou ( a people ever subject to rebellion ) to revolt from King John , and to ...
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... Queen of Scots . As Holinshed affords a sufficient foundation for both these fine passages , it is doubtless unnecessary to have recourse to any courtier - like or political motive in the poet . But from the unbounded love of flattery ...
... Queen of Scots . As Holinshed affords a sufficient foundation for both these fine passages , it is doubtless unnecessary to have recourse to any courtier - like or political motive in the poet . But from the unbounded love of flattery ...
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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...