Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fourth, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1880 |
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... scene in Coventry ( p . 30 ) shows St. Mi- chael's and Trinity churches , with one of the ancient “ pageants ” going on in the foreground . Shakespeare in his boyhood may have seen such a performance , as the exhibitions were not ...
... scene in Coventry ( p . 30 ) shows St. Mi- chael's and Trinity churches , with one of the ancient “ pageants ” going on in the foreground . Shakespeare in his boyhood may have seen such a performance , as the exhibitions were not ...
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William Shakespeare William James Rolfe. and sustained interest , and approaches in those scenes more to the dramatized ... scene between the Prince and his father , have sunk deep into thousands of hearts , and live in the general memory ...
William Shakespeare William James Rolfe. and sustained interest , and approaches in those scenes more to the dramatized ... scene between the Prince and his father , have sunk deep into thousands of hearts , and live in the general memory ...
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... scene . He is earnest and abundant in The instability of all mortal greatness a human pomp and power - the dread power - the base ingratitude of the gre of the masses - the independence of c all these , and other topics , are enforce ...
... scene . He is earnest and abundant in The instability of all mortal greatness a human pomp and power - the dread power - the base ingratitude of the gre of the masses - the independence of c all these , and other topics , are enforce ...
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... scene , when the tables are turned upon him , and his scouring - off laid bare , his resource is— “ Do you think I did not know ye ? By the Lord , I knew ye as well as he that made ye . " C When his men , Pistol , Nym , and ...
... scene , when the tables are turned upon him , and his scouring - off laid bare , his resource is— “ Do you think I did not know ye ? By the Lord , I knew ye as well as he that made ye . " C When his men , Pistol , Nym , and ...
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... scene of conviviality does not draw him out to the achievement of an entire song ; but he trolls out odds and ends , which he associates with the last words he hears in the conversation . Shallow says , " Be merry , Master Bardolph ...
... scene of conviviality does not draw him out to the achievement of an entire song ; but he trolls out odds and ends , which he associates with the last words he hears in the conversation . Shallow says , " Be merry , Master Bardolph ...
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Archbishop beseech blood brother Bullcalf called captain chamber Chief-Justice Clarence Clarke remarks Colevile Coll court cousin crown Davy dead death Doll doth drink earl marshall earl of Westmoreland early eds Eastcheap edition Enter Exeunt F. J. FURNIVALL faith father fear folio follow friends give Gloucester grace grief Harry Hastings hath head Henry IV Holinshed honour Hostess humour Johnson Julius Cæsar justice king's knight look Lord Bardolph Lord Hastings Macb majesty Malone Master Shallow Master Silence merry mind Mouldy Mowbray noble Northumberland omitted peace Pistol play Poins pray prick Prince John quarto reading rascal Rich rogue Rolfe Rolfe's royal says SCENE Schmidt Shakespeare sick Sir Dagonet Sir John Falstaff sleep speak speech spirit Steevens quotes swaggerers sweet sword tell thee thine thing thou art tion unto Warb Warwick whoreson wilt word
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Page 108 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 106 - It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes ; which, deliver'd o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 80 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie in treasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time ; And, by the necessary form of this, King Richard might create a perfect guess.
Page 24 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 133 - I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!
Page 205 - One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story with Sir John in it...
Page 117 - Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days.
Page 79 - 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 deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 13 - The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to please ; and that neither wit nor honesty ought to think themselves safe with such a companion, when they see Henry seduced by Falstaff.
Page 88 - I'll ne'er bear a base mind: — an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: No man's too good to serve his prince ; and, let it go which way it will, he that dies this year, is quit for the next.