Shakespeare's King Henry the Fifth: With Introduction, and Notes Explantory and Critical. For Use in Schools and FamiliesGinn, Heath, & Company, 1882 - 194 pages |
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... Act , being unrivalled in spirit , clearness , and force . Of course the play has its unity in the hero ; who is never for a moment out of our feelings : even when he is most absent or unseen , the thought and INTRODUCTION . 9.
... Act , being unrivalled in spirit , clearness , and force . Of course the play has its unity in the hero ; who is never for a moment out of our feelings : even when he is most absent or unseen , the thought and INTRODUCTION . 9.
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... force , of the royal counsels ; and plain truth was not deep enough for one who held it so much his interest to hoodwink the time . Even the virtue there cherished was in great part a made - up , surface virtue ; at the best there was a ...
... force , of the royal counsels ; and plain truth was not deep enough for one who held it so much his interest to hoodwink the time . Even the virtue there cherished was in great part a made - up , surface virtue ; at the best there was a ...
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... forces . The King's speeches to his soldiers at Harfleur and to the Governor and citizens of that town , in Act iii . ; his reflections on ceremony , and his speech to Westmoreland just before the battle of Agincourt , and Exeter's ...
... forces . The King's speeches to his soldiers at Harfleur and to the Governor and citizens of that town , in Act iii . ; his reflections on ceremony , and his speech to Westmoreland just before the battle of Agincourt , and Exeter's ...
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... forces work . Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies , Whose high - upreared and abutting fronts 1 Readers may like to be told that the image is of three eager hounds held back with a leash or ...
... forces work . Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies , Whose high - upreared and abutting fronts 1 Readers may like to be told that the image is of three eager hounds held back with a leash or ...
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... force rather qualifies opening than charge : so that the sense of the whole clause is , " that you should burden your wise judgment with the guilt of making that seem fairly and truly derived which is really a false creation , a fiction ...
... force rather qualifies opening than charge : so that the sense of the whole clause is , " that you should burden your wise judgment with the guilt of making that seem fairly and truly derived which is really a false creation , a fiction ...
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Agincourt Alice Bard Bardolph Bates battle battle of Agincourt behold blood brother Cant Captain Cath Catharine Chorus cold fear Collier's second folio Constable Constable of France correction crown Dauphin doth Duke Duke of Burgundy Duke of York Earl England English Enter King HENRY Exeter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Falstaff fear Fluellen folio reads France French give GLOSTER glove goot Gower grace hand Harfleur Harry hath heart HENRY THE FIFTH herald Holinshed honour horse humour imbar Julius Cæsar Kate King's leek liege look Lord Macedon Macmorris Majesty meaning Montjoy mouth never night noble numbers old text reads orld Pist Pistol play Poet Poet's pridge Prince quartos ransom Salique SCENE Scroop sense Shakespeare soldiers soul speak spirit sword tell thee thing thou thought Twelfth Night unto valour Warwick word
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Page 74 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any Christom child ; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en at turning o' the tide ; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 85 - 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 52 - The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts; 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 130 - God's will ! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear ; Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour, 1 am the most offending soul alive.
Page 130 - I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England: God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour, As one man more, methinks , would share from me, For the best hope I have. O , do not wish one more ! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart...
Page 5 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Page 85 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 131 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it...
Page 37 - O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 188 - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say To-morrow is Saint Crispian :' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.