History of King Henry the Fourth, Part 2Harper & brothers, 1882 |
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... hath been sundrie times publikely | acted by the right honourable , the Lord | Chamberlaine his seruants . | Written by William Shakespeare . | LONDON | Printed by V. S. for Andrew Wise , and William Aspley . | 1600 . It had been ...
... hath been sundrie times publikely | acted by the right honourable , the Lord | Chamberlaine his seruants . | Written by William Shakespeare . | LONDON | Printed by V. S. for Andrew Wise , and William Aspley . | 1600 . It had been ...
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... hath the power to please ; and that neither wit nor honesty ought to think themselves safe with such a com- panion when they see Henry seduced by Falstaff . [ From Verplanck's Shakespeare . * ] The observations on the dramatic character ...
... hath the power to please ; and that neither wit nor honesty ought to think themselves safe with such a com- panion when they see Henry seduced by Falstaff . [ From Verplanck's Shakespeare . * ] The observations on the dramatic character ...
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... hath suf- fered . " Into all these conflicts , calling forth high energies and ex- hibiting stirring scenes and a crowd of majestic personages , the young dramatist entered with the very spirit and sym- pathies of the times , naturally ...
... hath suf- fered . " Into all these conflicts , calling forth high energies and ex- hibiting stirring scenes and a crowd of majestic personages , the young dramatist entered with the very spirit and sym- pathies of the times , naturally ...
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... hath done nothing but prate of the wildness of his youth , and the feats he hath done about Turnbull Street , and every third word a lie , duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute . I do remember him at Clement's Inn , like a man ...
... hath done nothing but prate of the wildness of his youth , and the feats he hath done about Turnbull Street , and every third word a lie , duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute . I do remember him at Clement's Inn , like a man ...
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... Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops , Quenching the flame of bold rebellion Even with the rebels ' blood . But what mean I To speak so true at first ? my office is To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell Under the wrath of ...
... Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops , Quenching the flame of bold rebellion Even with the rebels ' blood . But what mean I To speak so true at first ? my office is To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell Under the wrath of ...
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Archbishop bear beseech blood brother Bullcalf called captain chamber Chief-Justice Clarence Clarke remarks Colevile Coll cousin crown Davy dead death Doll doth earl marshall earl of Westmoreland early eds Eastcheap edition Enter Exeunt faith father fear folio follow friends give Gloucester grace grief hand Harry Hastings hath head heart Henry IV Holinshed honour Hostess humour Johnson Julius Cæsar justice King Henry 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 Prince John quarto quarto reading rascal Rich rogue Rolfe Rolfe's royal says SCENE Schmidt Shakespeare sick Sir Dagonet Sir John Falstaff speak speech spirit Steevens quotes swaggering sweet sword tell thee thing thou art tion tongue unto Warb Warwick William Gascoigne wilt word
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Page 25 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep!— O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness / Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great...
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 49 - I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse : borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable...
Page 25 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care; The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast — Lady M. What do you mean? Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!
Page 108 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 88 - By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once: we owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base mind: an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: no man is too good to serve's prince; and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
Page 50 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection...
Page 63 - Well, thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us.
Page 25 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king...
Page 57 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, on Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.