 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 656 pages
...I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; ** And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,...I'll so offend, to make offence a skill, Redeeming tune when men think least I will. [ /-,V<Y. SCENE III. The Same. A Room in the Palace. Enter tlte KING,... | |
 | Joseph Hatton - 1871 - 344 pages
...debts I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,...Redeeming time when men think least I will. [Exit. SCENE II.— THE ROAD BY GADSHILL. Enter PRINCE OF WALES, and POINS, disguised. Poins. Come, shelter,... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 2004 - 264 pages
...debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,...skill. Redeeming time when men think least I will. (i,ii, 188-210) The return to blank verse at once relates Hal to the court, as he speaks in the mode... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Drama - 1988 - 226 pages
...subtle manipulation of appearances: And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract...hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend, to make offense a skill, Redeeming time when men think least I will. (1.2.212-17) Such lines, as Empson remarks,... | |
 | Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...much shall I falsify men's hopes; And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract...skill, Redeeming time when men think least I will. (1H IV, I, 2, 190-212) Obviously this soliloquy is designed to inform the audience of the Prince's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes. 210 And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,...skill, Redeeming time when men think least I will. Exit 1.3 Enter the King, Northumberland, Worcester, Hotspur, Sir Walter Blunt, with others KING HENRY My... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien - Historical drama, English - 1994 - 244 pages
...shall I falsify men's hopes; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract...hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend to make offense a skill, Redeeming time when men think least I will. He exits. (1.2.202-224) On the other hand,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes; SCENE III. London. Ли palace. Enter KltiO HbNRY.NORTHUMUF.KL AND, WORCESTER, HOTSPUR, SIR WALTER... | |
 | W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - Canon (Literature). - 1996 - 356 pages
...debt I never promised. By how much better than my word I am. By so much shall I falsify men's hopes: And. like bright metal on a sullen ground. My reformation....skill. Redeeming time when men think least I wilL (Henry I1; Part 1. L2.190-210) This is worth quoting at length because it alerts us to a knowledge... | |
 | Louis Montrose - Drama - 1996 - 246 pages
...debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes; And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,...more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. (/ Henry IV, i. 2.202-09 )95 The foil that sets off Shakespeare's Lancastrian plays is the earlier,... | |
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And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. 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 ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,... 
