| Hunting - 1830 - 554 pages
...rest assured that we may exclaim of it, in the words of the great Dramatist — 11 Shadows this night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers." But, on my life, I cannot help "giving tongue," in whatever society I enter, on the enormous atrocity... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...descended to the court, determined to bring the affair to some speedy explanation. T2 CHAPTER XVII. " By the Apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck...Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers " Richard III THE consultation that now took place was between the principal laymen. The connection... | |
| English literature - 1841 - 582 pages
...describing the baneful symptoms which had blanched his cheek, and shaken every limb, confessing that : — - Shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul...can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed all in proof, and led by shallow Richmond." Rallying, however, his failing spirits, the king breathed... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 pages
...— is dim, And the loud shriek of sage Minerva's fowl Rattles around me her discordant hymn : (1) [" By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck...Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers," &c. Richard III.] (2) Hobbos : who, doubting of his own soul, paid that compliment to the souls of... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 332 pages
...— is dim, And the loud shriek of sage Minerva's fowl Rattles around me her discordant hymn : (1) [" By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck...Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers," &c. nichard ///.] XCV. Old portraits from old walls upon me scowl — I wish to heaven they would not... | |
| John Wade - Great Britain - 1835 - 640 pages
...dreams ! CATESBV. Shadows, my lord ! below the soldier's heeding. GLOSTER. Now by my this day's hopes, shadows, to-night, Have struck more terror to the...Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Arm'd all in proof. — Act v. sc. 5. Such were the alarms of the iron-nerved Richard. Let us, then,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...my lord. K. Rich. Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,— Rat, Nay, good my lord, he not afraid of shadows. A'. ill be-enaw thy soul ! Thy friends suspect for traitors...for thy dearest friends ! No sleep close up that de prooÇ and led by shallow Richmond. It is not yet near day. Come, go with me ; Under our tenta 1*11... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 pages
...is dim, And the loud shriek of sage Minerva's fowl Rattles around me her discordant hymn • (1) [" By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck...Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers," &c. Richard ///.] (2) Hobbes : who, doubting of his own soul, paid that compliment to the souls of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 564 pages
...thou ? will our friends prove all true ? Rat. No doubt, my lord. K. Rich. Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,— Rat. Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows....terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance often thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond. • It is not yet near day. Come,... | |
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