Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1840 - 340 páginas |
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... mean , must be taken which is permanent in our nature , which is common , and , there- fore , deeply interesting , to all ages . The events them- selves are immaterial , otherwise than as the clothing and manifestation of the spirit ...
... mean , must be taken which is permanent in our nature , which is common , and , there- fore , deeply interesting , to all ages . The events them- selves are immaterial , otherwise than as the clothing and manifestation of the spirit ...
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... means an established rule of the law of England . Shakspeare himself is mainly responsible for the prevalency of this belief of usurpation . I do not say he created it , because he found it in the old play . Our poet places King John at ...
... means an established rule of the law of England . Shakspeare himself is mainly responsible for the prevalency of this belief of usurpation . I do not say he created it , because he found it in the old play . Our poet places King John at ...
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... means to cause them of Poitou ( a people ever subject to rebellion ) to revolt from King John , and to take armour against him ; so that the young Arthur , being encouraged with this new supply of associates , relying upon the ...
... means to cause them of Poitou ( a people ever subject to rebellion ) to revolt from King John , and to take armour against him ; so that the young Arthur , being encouraged with this new supply of associates , relying upon the ...
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... means of those noblemen that went to and fro between them , they were accorded , and the king promised from henceforth to do nothing but by the assent of the dukes ; but he kept small promise in this behalf , as after will appear ...
... means of those noblemen that went to and fro between them , they were accorded , and the king promised from henceforth to do nothing but by the assent of the dukes ; but he kept small promise in this behalf , as after will appear ...
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... means by which Northumberland brought Richard to Flint , match- ed , as historians tell us , by intentions equally trea- * He says that he joined him at Conway . + Arch . , 55 , 64 . Arch . , 158 . § Hol . , 857 . || John Holland , who ...
... means by which Northumberland brought Richard to Flint , match- ed , as historians tell us , by intentions equally trea- * He says that he joined him at Conway . + Arch . , 55 , 64 . Arch . , 158 . § Hol . , 857 . || John Holland , who ...
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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...