 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1915 - 878 pages
...action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide, Hold...To his full height ! On, on, you noblest English. Henry V. Act iii. so. 1. THERE has recently been an extraordinary recrudescence of hatred throughout... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 352 pages
...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. Now set...Have, in these parts, from morn till even fought, A nd sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.§ ACT IV. CHORUS. Description of Night in a Camp.... | |
 | Robert B. Pierce - Domestic drama, English - 1971 - 284 pages
...speech is a reminder of his men's heroic ancestry, first to the nobles and then to the common soldiers: On, on, you noblest English! Whose blood is fet from...Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought, And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument. Dishonour not your mothers; now attest That diose whom... | |
 | Rolf Soellner - Drama - 1972 - 488 pages
...is not to identify himself with the Macedonian conqueror but with his and his soldiers' ancestors : On, on, you noblest English, Whose blood is fet from...Alexanders Have in these parts from morn till even fought, And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument. Monmouth and Macedonia may be similar in that they... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...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. Now set...Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To its full height ! — Now, on, you noble English, Whose blood is set from fathers of war-proof ! Fathers... | |
 | Mary Maxwell - Philosophy - 1984 - 394 pages
...the tiger. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood . . . Then lend the eye a terrible aspect . . . Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide, Hold...spirit To his full height! On, on, you noblest English. It must also be noted that the 'beast of war' and the trumpet sound do not always have to imply a threat... | |
 | Eliot Weinberger - Fiction - 1986 - 198 pages
...up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold...bend up every spirit To his full height! On, on you noble English . . . E. The Western image of the tiger was permanently altered in the eighteenth century... | |
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Poetry - 1989 - 216 pages
...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. Now set...Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought, And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument. Dishonour not your mothers; now attest That those whom... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - Performing Arts - 1992 - 168 pages
...wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up very spirit To his full height! On, on, you noblest English!...so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn to even fought, And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument. Dishonour not your mothers; now attest... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base. Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth...breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height. (Ill, i) 57 From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night. The hum of either army stilly sounds,... | |
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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... 
