 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 ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd...  The Tatler - Page 123by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 378 pages
...elsewhere observed, Shakspeare probably meant•/fre, svtord, and. famine. So, in King Henry V . " Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, " Assume the port of Mars: and, at his heels, " Lcash'd in like hounds, shotH&Jamine, sword, utAfre, " Qrouch for employment," Malone. That this... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...butchers. The arms of this country are disgraced, even in victory, as well as defeat. Is this • " and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire, Crouch for employment." — Henry I'. consistent, my lords, with any part of our former conduct ? Was it by means... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 458 pages
...invention ! • A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume...hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.2 But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd, On this unworthy scaffold,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 428 pages
...of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarch.s to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume...hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd, On this unworthy scaffold,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 514 pages
...of invention!' i A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold 1 the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, • '.....hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd, On this unworthy scaffold,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 534 pages
...heaven of invention I A kingdom for a stage, princes to act. And monarchs to behold the swellmg scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume...and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine,sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirit, that... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 480 pages
...falling tears;+ Ere I consent to teach my lips injustice, Or wrong the orphan who has none to save him. * At his heels Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch fur employment. Heary VA t. Chorus. Death and destruction dog thee at the heels. Richard III. A. iv.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 446 pages
...has elsewhere observed, Shakspeare probably meant fire, sword, and famine. So, in King Henry V : " Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, " Assume...Mars; and, at his heels, " Leash'd in like hounds, should^mzVze, sword, saAJire, " Crouch for employment." The same observation is made by Steele, in... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...flights ; without any allusion to the Peripatetic system, or to the aspiring nature of fire. B. Chor. Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume...hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. Leas/it in like hounds, should famine, srcord, andjire, Crouch for employment. j Lot ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 588 pages
...hypocrisy ; and when hypocrisy might think proper to conclude her game, and let profligacy play her part, " Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume...hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment." Measures of this complexion would indeed account for ministerial taciturnity. It was the... | |
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