Shakspeare's tragedy of King Richard ii, with notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter |
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Shakspeare's Tragedy of King Richard II, with Notes, Adapted for Scholastic ... William Shakespeare No preview available - 2015 |
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Act II answer appeal arms Attendants Aumerle Bagot banished blood Boling Bolingbroke born breath Bushy castle cause comes common Compare cousin crown dear death deposed doth Duch duke of Hereford duke of Norfolk Earl earth England Enter Exeunt face fair false farewell father fear fight friends Gaunt give grace Green grief hand hast hath head heart heaven Henry Hereford Holinshed honour John keep KING RICHARD KING RICHARD II king's Lancaster land leave liege live look lord majesty marshal means Mowbray never noble North Northumberland officers pardon peace play present prince prove Queen realm Rich Ross royal Shakspeare shame sorrow soul sound speak stand sweet tears thee Thomas thou thought tongue traitor true uncle York
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Page 35 - This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 67 - And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 102 - As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard; no man cried 'God save him!
Page 35 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Page 67 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 11 - Rich. Rage must be withstood : Give me his gage : — Lions make leopards tame. Nor. Yea, but not change his spots: take but my shame, And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is — spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.
Page 68 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Page 27 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
Page 88 - Venice gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long.
Page 32 - O but they say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain. For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.