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... play ; Which I might guess by marking up the ghosts And policies not incident to hosts ; But chiefly by that one perspicuous thing , Where he mistook a player for a king . For when he would have said , King Richard died , And call'd , a ...
... play ; Which I might guess by marking up the ghosts And policies not incident to hosts ; But chiefly by that one perspicuous thing , Where he mistook a player for a king . For when he would have said , King Richard died , And call'd , a ...
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... plays ( with the exception perhaps of the " Merry Wives of Windsor , " said to have been written by royal command , ) there is an original to be found , in the shape of an Italian novel or otherwise . Some even of his historical plays ...
... plays ( with the exception perhaps of the " Merry Wives of Windsor , " said to have been written by royal command , ) there is an original to be found , in the shape of an Italian novel or otherwise . Some even of his historical plays ...
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... play , it is necessary to take great liberties . As the construction of a good play was , or ought to have been , Shakspeare's first object , we shall , perhaps , find reason to lament his adherence to historical models , rather than ...
... play , it is necessary to take great liberties . As the construction of a good play was , or ought to have been , Shakspeare's first object , we shall , perhaps , find reason to lament his adherence to historical models , rather than ...
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... play of Henry V. Yet this passage is a specimen of the carelessness of historical critics . The sequel to Henry V. is a play of little merit , and probably not Shakspeare's , and certainly records little of glory or success . But ...
... play of Henry V. Yet this passage is a specimen of the carelessness of historical critics . The sequel to Henry V. is a play of little merit , and probably not Shakspeare's , and certainly records little of glory or success . But ...
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... play ; but he certainly took from it the outline of his plot , and some of his scenes . We shall judge , in going through his play , whether he went any further for his history . That old play is itself supposed , ‡ upon the slightest ...
... play ; but he certainly took from it the outline of his plot , and some of his scenes . We shall judge , in going through his play , whether he went any further for his history . That old play is itself supposed , ‡ upon the slightest ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 142 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 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...