Henry IV.: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Families, Part 1Ginn & Company, 1885 |
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... face , that much effort was used to withdraw him from the field . So that in fact he was some twenty years younger than Hotspur . Such a difference of age would naturally foreclose any rivalry between them ; and one of the Poet's most ...
... face , that much effort was used to withdraw him from the field . So that in fact he was some twenty years younger than Hotspur . Such a difference of age would naturally foreclose any rivalry between them ; and one of the Poet's most ...
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... face be like a wet cloak ill laid up . " Nor has Falstaff any difficulty in stirring up congenial motions in the Prince , insomuch that the teacher sometimes has enough to do to keep his leading . Falstaff is the same in this respect ...
... face be like a wet cloak ill laid up . " Nor has Falstaff any difficulty in stirring up congenial motions in the Prince , insomuch that the teacher sometimes has enough to do to keep his leading . Falstaff is the same in this respect ...
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... and practical humourists . Just think of his proposing Bardolph , -- an offscouring and pack- age of dregs which he has picked up , nobody can guess wherefore , unless because his face has turned into a INTRODUCTION . 35.
... and practical humourists . Just think of his proposing Bardolph , -- an offscouring and pack- age of dregs which he has picked up , nobody can guess wherefore , unless because his face has turned into a INTRODUCTION . 35.
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... face has turned into a per- petual blush and carbuncle ; -just think of his proposing such a person for security , and that too to one who knows them both ! To my sense , his humour is shown alike in the offer of such an endorser and in ...
... face has turned into a per- petual blush and carbuncle ; -just think of his proposing such a person for security , and that too to one who knows them both ! To my sense , his humour is shown alike in the offer of such an endorser and in ...
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... face , though they cannot but know the paint is all that keeps them from being unsightly and loathsome . In her case , however , this may spring , in part , from a simplicity not unlike that which sometimes causes little children to ...
... face , though they cannot but know the paint is all that keeps them from being unsightly and loathsome . In her case , however , this may spring , in part , from a simplicity not unlike that which sometimes causes little children to ...
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anon arms art thou Bard Bardolph battle of Shrewsbury better blood called Capell character Collier's second folio counterfeit cousin coward Devil doth Doug Douglas drink Dyce Earl of Fife Earl of March Eastcheap Enter Exeunt Exit faith Falstaff father fear fight Francis Gads Gadshill give Glend Glendower grace Harry Harry Percy hath head hear heart Holinshed honour horse Host Hostess Hotspur humour Jack keep King Henry Lady Lancaster lord matter means Mort Mortimer never night noble old copies read old text Percy Peto play Poet Pointz pr'ythee Prince Henry Prince of Wales prisoners rogue sack SCENE Scot sense Shakespeare Sir John Sir John Oldcastle Sir WALTER BLUNT Sirrah speak speech spirit sweet sword tell thee there's thing thou art thou hast thought to-morrow true Twelfth Night villain Westmoreland Worcester word wound
Popular passages
Page 54 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 172 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will, not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 72 - Out of my grief and my impatience Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman Of guns, and drums, and wounds, — God save the mark! — And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise...
Page 31 - twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit : to die, is to be a counterfeit ; for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man : but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed.
Page 103 - 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.
Page 195 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Page 55 - Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Page 71 - 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, trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; He was perfumed like a milliner...
Page 155 - 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 117 - God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damned : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord ; Banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins : but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company ; banish plump Jack, and banish all the...