The Life and Death of King JohnMacmillan, 1890 - 187 pages |
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William Shakespeare. Deviations from history . Scene , the revolted lords , with Prince Henry , are found assembled round John's death - bed as he expires in great agony . The Play closes with the news that the Dau- phin is setting out ...
William Shakespeare. Deviations from history . Scene , the revolted lords , with Prince Henry , are found assembled round John's death - bed as he expires in great agony . The Play closes with the news that the Dau- phin is setting out ...
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... prince , his fearlessness teaches him a language of defiance which John had not dared to use ; in the ensuing battle he " alone upholds the day " ; to him Hubert hastens upon the poisoning of the King ; and into his ear John pours his ...
... prince , his fearlessness teaches him a language of defiance which John had not dared to use ; in the ensuing battle he " alone upholds the day " ; to him Hubert hastens upon the poisoning of the King ; and into his ear John pours his ...
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... Prince Hal has he mixed with more god - like sleight of hand all the lighter and graver good qualities of the national character , or compounded of them so lovable a nature as this . " ... Pandulph , from his point of action , plays ...
... Prince Hal has he mixed with more god - like sleight of hand all the lighter and graver good qualities of the national character , or compounded of them so lovable a nature as this . " ... Pandulph , from his point of action , plays ...
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William Shakespeare. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN . DRAMATIS PERSONA . KING JOHN . PRINCE HENRY , son.
William Shakespeare. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN . DRAMATIS PERSONA . KING JOHN . PRINCE HENRY , son.
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William Shakespeare. DRAMATIS PERSONA . KING JOHN . PRINCE HENRY , son to the king . ARTHUR , Duke of Bretagne , nephew to the king . The Earl of PEMBROKE . The Earl of ESSEX . The Earl of SALISBURY . The Lord BIGOT . HUBERT DE BURGH ...
William Shakespeare. DRAMATIS PERSONA . KING JOHN . PRINCE HENRY , son to the king . ARTHUR , Duke of Bretagne , nephew to the king . The Earl of PEMBROKE . The Earl of ESSEX . The Earl of SALISBURY . The Lord BIGOT . HUBERT DE BURGH ...
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Page 129 - Reputation, reputation, reputation ! O, I have lost my reputation ! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Page 178 - Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. O ! you and I have heard our fathers say, There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king.
Page 138 - Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
Page 134 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings...
Page 52 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 58 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet, Told of a many thousand warlike French That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : 200 Another lean unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.
Page 173 - I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Page 173 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Page 156 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 119 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.