| Orson Welles - 1988 - 356 pages
...pattern in saying: God knows, my son, By what bypaths and indirect crook'd ways 1 met this crown; and 1 myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head. To thee it shall descend with better quiet. Better opinion, better confirmation; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.... | |
| Wolfgang Iser - 1993 - 254 pages
...he acknowledges explicitly on his deathbed: God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown, and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head. (2H IV, IV, 5, 183-86) There is a very important facet of the aesthetic object to be derived from this:... | |
| James Boyd White - 1994 - 338 pages
...before his death, in Act IV.v. 181, he says: "God knows, my son, / By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown; and I myself know well / How...head: / To thee it shall descend with better quiet, / Better opinion, better confirmation." THE AUTHORITY OF THE PLAY In such a universe, in which the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pages
...latest counsel That ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crooked ways I met this crown, and I myself know well How...head. To thee it shall descend with better quiet, 173 affec tion inclination 178 In F this speech begins with the line 'O my Sonne!', and the Prince's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...latest counsel That ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crookt ways 1 PAGE. Of none but him; and swears he was carried out, the last time he Better opinion, better confirmation; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.... | |
| Jutta Schamp - 1997 - 382 pages
...Absetzung und Ermordung Richards II. belastet hat: God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown, and I myself know well How troublesome it sät upon my head. (Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV, IV, 5, 183-186.) Heinrich IV. offenbart hier in einem... | |
| Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 pages
...possession of the crown: To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation, For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth. It seem'd in me But as an honor snatch'd with boist'rous hand, (187-91) and "boist'rous" carries us... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1998 - 308 pages
...sat upon my head. To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation, For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth. It seemed in me 320 But as an honour snatched with boist'rous hand ; And I had many living to upbraid... | |
| John Julius Norwich - 2001 - 438 pages
...curtain falls. King Henry IV Part II [1403-1413] God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown, and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head. KING HENRY IV PART II The second of Shakespeare's two Henry IV plays is even more episodic than the... | |
| Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pages
...differences. Shakespeare makes Henry's confession — God knows, my son, By what bypaths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head. (4. 3. 312-15) — a more poignant, almost weary acknowledgement that what God knows, Henry himself... | |
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