The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes original and selected by S.W. Singer, and a life of the poet by C. Symmons, Volume 5 |
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... stands there like a pillar of the olden time which he had outlived * . * This drama abounds in passages of eminent poetical beauty ; among which every reader will recollect the pathetic description of Richard's entrance into London with ...
... stands there like a pillar of the olden time which he had outlived * . * This drama abounds in passages of eminent poetical beauty ; among which every reader will recollect the pathetic description of Richard's entrance into London with ...
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... stand in arms , To prove , by heaven's grace , and my body's valour , In lists , on Thomas Mowbray , duke of Norfolk , That he's a traitor , foul and dangerous , To God of heaven , King Richard , and to me ; And , as I truly fight ...
... stand in arms , To prove , by heaven's grace , and my body's valour , In lists , on Thomas Mowbray , duke of Norfolk , That he's a traitor , foul and dangerous , To God of heaven , King Richard , and to me ; And , as I truly fight ...
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... Stands here for God , his sovereign , and himself , On pain to be found false and recreant , To prove the Duke of Norfolk , Thomas Mowbray , A traitor to his God , his king , and him , And dares him to set forward to the fight . 2 Her ...
... Stands here for God , his sovereign , and himself , On pain to be found false and recreant , To prove the Duke of Norfolk , Thomas Mowbray , A traitor to his God , his king , and him , And dares him to set forward to the fight . 2 Her ...
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... stand out in Ireland : - Expedient manage must be made , my liege ; Ere further leisure yield them further means , For their advantage , and your highness ' loss . K. Rich . We will ourself in person to this war . And , for our coffers ...
... stand out in Ireland : - Expedient manage must be made , my liege ; Ere further leisure yield them further means , For their advantage , and your highness ' loss . K. Rich . We will ourself in person to this war . And , for our coffers ...
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... standing by him . Gaunt . Will the king come ? that I may breathe my last In wholesome counsel to his unstaied youth . 1 Edmond duke of York was the fifth son of Edward III . and was born , in 1441 , at Langley , near St. Albans , Herts ...
... standing by him . Gaunt . Will the king come ? that I may breathe my last In wholesome counsel to his unstaied youth . 1 Edmond duke of York was the fifth son of Edward III . and was born , in 1441 , at Langley , near St. Albans , Herts ...
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Page 460 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition : And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here ; And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks That fought with us upon saint Crispin's day.
Page 414 - 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 : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 388 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor...
Page 33 - This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 296 - 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...
Page 33 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son : This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Page 415 - 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.
Page 104 - I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world: And for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; My soul the father: and these two beget A generation of still-breeding thoughts, And these same thoughts people this little world In humours like the people of this world, For no thought is contented.
Page 252 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 133 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; Who, therewith angry, when it next came...