King Henry the Fifth: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and FamiliesGinn & Company, 1887 - 194 pages |
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... Poet's works , being wanting altogether . All these , besides more or less of enlargement in a great many places , together with the marks of a careful finishing hand running through the whole , were supplied in the folio of 1623 ...
... Poet's works , being wanting altogether . All these , besides more or less of enlargement in a great many places , together with the marks of a careful finishing hand running through the whole , were supplied in the folio of 1623 ...
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... Poet's plays having been carefully rewritten and vastly improved after the original draughts of them had been made . Nor is it unlikely that some of them underwent this process more than once . And the fact is of consequence as refuting ...
... Poet's plays having been carefully rewritten and vastly improved after the original draughts of them had been made . Nor is it unlikely that some of them underwent this process more than once . And the fact is of consequence as refuting ...
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... Poet , upon the revisal , to pour through the work so large a measure of the lyrical element , thus penetrating and filling it with the efficacy of a grand national song of triumph . Hence comes it that the play is so thoroughly charged ...
... Poet , upon the revisal , to pour through the work so large a measure of the lyrical element , thus penetrating and filling it with the efficacy of a grand national song of triumph . Hence comes it that the play is so thoroughly charged ...
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... Poet did well to keep Falstaff in retirement where , though his once matchless powers no longer give us pleasure , yet the report of his sufferings gently touches our pity , and recovers him to our human sympathies . And when at last ...
... Poet did well to keep Falstaff in retirement where , though his once matchless powers no longer give us pleasure , yet the report of his sufferings gently touches our pity , and recovers him to our human sympathies . And when at last ...
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... Poet's versatility and range of genius . There is indeed nothing here that comes up to the earlier scenes at Eastcheap so much is implied in the absence of Falstaff ; for nothing else in the comic line can be expected to equal that ...
... Poet's versatility and range of genius . There is indeed nothing here that comes up to the earlier scenes at Eastcheap so much is implied in the absence of Falstaff ; for nothing else in the comic line can be expected to equal that ...
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Agincourt Alice Bard Bardolph Bates battle battle of Agincourt behold blood brother Cant Captain Cath Catharine Chorus 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 matter meaning mind Montjoy mouth never night noble numbers old text reads orld passage Pist Pistol play Poet Poet's 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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