 | 1845 - 260 pages
...to the same place where the rest had disposed of the glittering bauble, and there quietly left it. " Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth...itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought." " The huntsman had no sooner ' strutted his hour upon the stage,' ' vanished into airy nothing,' than... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...comparatively poor and meagre, the style " flat and unraised." There are few lines like the following : " Glory is like a circle in the water ; Which never...enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught." The first part relates lo the wars in France after the death of Henry V., and the story of... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...to limit. What's in a name; that which we call a rote, By any other name — would smell as sweet. Glory — is like a circle in the water, Which never...ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading^ it disperses to novght. God's benison go with you ; and with those, That would make good of bad, nnafriends... | |
 | Harold C. Goddard - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 410 pages
...France. Well may Joan of Arc cry, in what are perhaps the finest lines and dominating image of the play: Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth...enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught. Under another aspect, the story is just an interlude between the death of one "strong" king,... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Criticism - 1967 - 70 pages
...Henry VI, the most pitiful creature in all Shakespeare. At the beginning of Henry VI La Pucelle says: With Henry's death the English circle ends: Dispersed are the glories it included. And, however many fiends La Pucelle may keep company with, she is dead right. What we see in the play... | |
 | Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - Literary Collections - 1971 - 782 pages
...spreading everywhere). 4) intr. a) to be scattered, to separate: away, d. Wiv. V, 5, 78. b) to vanish: a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading it d. to nought, H6A I, 2. 135. Dispiteous, pitiless: John IV, 1, 34. Displace, 1) to remove from the... | |
 | Fritz John - Mathematics - 1991 - 266 pages
...•For the analogous situation of surface waves in water (n=2) compare Shakespeare (Henry VI, part /): Glory is like a circle in the water Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself (c) For N(x,r,t) u(x,t)= lim - = c° (L22) 3. For x = (xl,x2,x3) consider the equation of elastic waves... | |
 | Phyllis Rackin - Drama - 1990 - 276 pages
...image of the circle itself circles back to the first act of i Henry VI to recall Joan's resonant lines: Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth...circle ends, Dispersed are the glories it included. (I. ii. 133-37) Here too the circle encloses an absence, and here too it is associated with Henry's... | |
 | Gary Shapiro - Philosophy - 1991 - 178 pages
...assuredly I'll raise: Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days, Since I have entered into these wars. Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth...Henry's death the English circle ends: Dispersed are the flories it included. Now am I like that proud insulting ship Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once.... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...globe itself, enclosed within a paternal God's cosmic spheres. When we are told in the histories that Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth...itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. (1H6 1.2.133-35) it is in the context of hearing that "with Henry [V] 's death the English circle ends"... | |
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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. 
