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... true conceptions of England's feudal ages . Of the ten plays of this historic series , the first part of Henry IV . is the most brilliant and various , and , there- fore , the most attractive ; while it is substantially as true as any ...
... true conceptions of England's feudal ages . Of the ten plays of this historic series , the first part of Henry IV . is the most brilliant and various , and , there- fore , the most attractive ; while it is substantially as true as any ...
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... true and living portrait of the higher minds of his class and order , under the influence of feudal manners and ideas , individualized by some personal peculi- arities ( such as the " speaking thick " and many others ) , to aid in the ...
... true and living portrait of the higher minds of his class and order , under the influence of feudal manners and ideas , individualized by some personal peculi- arities ( such as the " speaking thick " and many others ) , to aid in the ...
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... true and as characteristic , though not as dark , as Tacitus has left us of Tiberius . Thus has been produced a drama historical in the highest sense of the term , as being imbued throughout , penetrated , with the spirit of the times ...
... true and as characteristic , though not as dark , as Tacitus has left us of Tiberius . Thus has been produced a drama historical in the highest sense of the term , as being imbued throughout , penetrated , with the spirit of the times ...
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... true conceptions of England's feudal ages . Of the ten plays of this historic series , the first part of Henry IV . is the most brilliant and various , and , there- fore , the most attractive ; while it is substantially as true as any ...
... true conceptions of England's feudal ages . Of the ten plays of this historic series , the first part of Henry IV . is the most brilliant and various , and , there- fore , the most attractive ; while it is substantially as true as any ...
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... true and living portrait of the higher minds of his class and order , under the influence of feudal manners and ideas , individualized by some personal peculi- arities ( such as the " speaking thick " and many others ) , to aid in the ...
... true and living portrait of the higher minds of his class and order , under the influence of feudal manners and ideas , individualized by some personal peculi- arities ( such as the " speaking thick " and many others ) , to aid in the ...
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Anon Bardolph battle of Shrewsbury blood Blunt Bolingbroke brother character Clarke cousin coward crown cuckoo death devil dost doth Douglas drink Earl of Fife earl of March early eds Eastcheap edition editors England English Enter Exeunt Exit faith Falstaff father fear folio Francis Gadshill give hanged Harry hath head hear heaven Henry Hotspur Henry IV Henry Percy historical Holinshed honour horse Hostess Hotspur humour Jack Johnson Julius Cæsar Kate King Henry king's Lady Percy Lancaster lord lord Henry Percy Malone Mortimer nest never night noble Northumberland Owen Glendower Peto play poet's Poins Prince of Wales prisoners prithee quartos reading remarks Rich Richard rogue says SCENE Schmidt Scot Shakespeare Shakspere Shrewsbury Sir John speak Steevens quotes sweet sword tell Temp thee thou art thou hast Vaughan Vernon Welsh Westmoreland Worcester word Zounds
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Page 34 - I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world...
Page 73 - And dress'd myself in such humility That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts, Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths, Even in the presence of the crowned King.
Page 36 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box...
Page 87 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 63 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules ; but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct.
Page 34 - So when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes...
Page 41 - By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship ! Wor.
Page 35 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners ; But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom...
Page 17 - This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, 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...
Page 130 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north, he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life, I want work'.