Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fourth, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1880 |
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... present spire was erected in 1664–7 to replace the original one blown down in 1664. The portrait of Sir William Gascoigne ( p . 53 ) represents him in his judicial robes , and is taken from his monument in Harwood Church , Yorkshire ...
... present spire was erected in 1664–7 to replace the original one blown down in 1664. The portrait of Sir William Gascoigne ( p . 53 ) represents him in his judicial robes , and is taken from his monument in Harwood Church , Yorkshire ...
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... presents are drawn , if not with the same bold freedom and pointed invention as in the first part , yet with undiminished truth and discrimination . But on the comic side of the play there is no flagging either of spirit or invention ...
... presents are drawn , if not with the same bold freedom and pointed invention as in the first part , yet with undiminished truth and discrimination . But on the comic side of the play there is no flagging either of spirit or invention ...
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... present a contin of revolutions , wars , conspiracies , and r cident is connected with some great Nothing can be more picturesque , mo manner in which these are put into act very reality of such things , than the conferences , counsels ...
... present a contin of revolutions , wars , conspiracies , and r cident is connected with some great Nothing can be more picturesque , mo manner in which these are put into act very reality of such things , than the conferences , counsels ...
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... present grief had wip'd it from my mind . Go in with me , and counsel every man The aptest way for safety and revenge . Get posts and letters , and make friends with speed ; Never so few , and never yet more need . SCENE II . London . A ...
... present grief had wip'd it from my mind . Go in with me , and counsel every man The aptest way for safety and revenge . Get posts and letters , and make friends with speed ; Never so few , and never yet more need . SCENE II . London . A ...
Page 49
... gladly would be better satisfied How in our means we should advance To look with forehead bold and big en Upon the power and puissance of the Hastings . Our present musters grow ❤ 50 • ` To five and twenty thousand men m- 4.
... gladly would be better satisfied How in our means we should advance To look with forehead bold and big en Upon the power and puissance of the Hastings . Our present musters grow ❤ 50 • ` To five and twenty thousand men m- 4.
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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.