The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 6Macmillan and Company, limited, 1899 |
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... Richard III . are fixed by Greene's diatribe to 1592-3 ; 1 and 2 Henry IV . and Henry V. by the Essex allusion in Henry V. chorus v . to 1598-9 . Far more clearly than Richard II . , King John belongs to the interim between the first ...
... Richard III . are fixed by Greene's diatribe to 1592-3 ; 1 and 2 Henry IV . and Henry V. by the Essex allusion in Henry V. chorus v . to 1598-9 . Far more clearly than Richard II . , King John belongs to the interim between the first ...
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... Richard II .; but the tragedy of which he is the contriver has striking affinities of situation to that of Richard , and continu- ally recalls it in spite of equally striking diversities of treatment . Constance is not Margaret , nor ...
... Richard II .; but the tragedy of which he is the contriver has striking affinities of situation to that of Richard , and continu- ally recalls it in spite of equally striking diversities of treatment . Constance is not Margaret , nor ...
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... Richard lived in the popular imagination as a hero of the same colossal mould ; and though Richard could not well be brought in in person to aid his successor , an unknown inheritor of his thews and lion - heart might be raised up to ...
... Richard lived in the popular imagination as a hero of the same colossal mould ; and though Richard could not well be brought in in person to aid his successor , an unknown inheritor of his thews and lion - heart might be raised up to ...
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... Richard arise from obscurity , taught by mystic whisperings of birds and boughs that he is Richard's son ; 2 they saw him vow vengeance upon Richard's two arch - enemies— united in a single grotesque effigy , and solemnly ' offer ...
... Richard arise from obscurity , taught by mystic whisperings of birds and boughs that he is Richard's son ; 2 they saw him vow vengeance upon Richard's two arch - enemies— united in a single grotesque effigy , and solemnly ' offer ...
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... Richard III . The situation of Margaret after Tewkesbury , of Elizabeth after the murders in the Tower , resemble that of Constance ; but Margaret utters her passion for vengeance more poignantly than the agony of her loss , and ...
... Richard III . The situation of Margaret after Tewkesbury , of Elizabeth after the murders in the Tower , resemble that of Constance ; but Margaret utters her passion for vengeance more poignantly than the agony of her loss , and ...
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Page 116 - Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. — This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 442 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Page 442 - O Sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 444 - Too wide for Neptune's hips ; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors ! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
Page 163 - 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 414 - Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it ? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...