 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...most remarkable Prologue of the few which are attached to Shakspere's plays. It thus commences : — " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now, That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present." Tt is, to our minds, a perfect exposition of the principle upon which the poet worked in the construction... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 496 pages
...Attendants. Spirits. SCENE — Chiefly in London and Westminster; once at Kimbolton. PROLOGUE. I COMB no more to make you laugh: things now, That bear a...Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such iioble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here May, if they think... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - Slavery - 1869 - 714 pages
...occasion of the capture at Harper's Ferry of Captain John Brown and his associates. See Note VII. " Things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow,...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present." Let us keep before us the great fact — the violent enslavement of forty hundreds of thousands of... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - History - 1869 - 680 pages
...the capture at Harper's Ferry of Captain John Brown and his associates. See Note VII. (153) * » " Things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow,...scenes as draw the eye to flow, "We now present." Let us keep before us tne great fact — the violent enslavement of forty hundreds of thousands of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 740 pages
...burning of the theatre, the play performol a expressly stated to have been called " HBNBY THE EIGHTH." I come no more to make you laugh : — things now...scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those thai can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear : The subject will deserve it. Such... | |
 | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - England - 1871 - 238 pages
...me, With all thy minarets and towers, And sculptured marbles fair to see." Henry Glassford Bell. " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now, That...well, let fall a tear; The subject will deserve it." Prologue to King Henry the Eighth. IF you want to walk through dirty streets with narrow pavements,... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1872 - 830 pages
...more fitting preface than a few lines taken from Shakespear's prologue to his drama of Henry VIII. " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now That...well, let fall a tear ; The subject will deserve it .... Think, ye see The very persons of our noble story, As they were living : think you see them great,... | |
 | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - England - 1871 - 234 pages
...me, With all thy minarets and towers, And sculptured marbles fair to see." Henry Glassford Bell. " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now, That...well, let fall a tear ; The subject will deserve it." Prologue to King Henry the Eighth. IF you want to walk through dirty streets with narrow pavements,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 218 pages
...living," adds the last graceful finishing to her character. \_From Knighfs Comments on the Play.*'\ " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present." This is the commencement of the most remarkable Prologue of the few which are attached to Shakespeare's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 152 pages
...tJte Queen; Sptrits which appear to her; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants. PROLOGUE. I come no more to make you laugh; things now That...weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working, 1 full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can... | |
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I COME no more to make you laugh ; things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow. Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. 
