History of King Henry the Fourth, Part 2Harper & brothers, 1882 |
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... noble spire of St. Michael's , 303 feet high , was old even then , having been finished in 1395. Trinity Church was built in the 13th century , but the present spire was erected in 1664-7 to replace the original one blown down in 1664 ...
... noble spire of St. Michael's , 303 feet high , was old even then , having been finished in 1395. Trinity Church was built in the 13th century , but the present spire was erected in 1664-7 to replace the original one blown down in 1664 ...
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... noble and impressive in style , and the characters it 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 ...
... noble and impressive in style , and the characters it 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 ...
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... noble Hotspur's sword , And that the king before the Douglas ' rage Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death . This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns Between that royal field of Shrewsbury And this worm - eaten hold of ragged ...
... noble Hotspur's sword , And that the king before the Douglas ' rage Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death . This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns Between that royal field of Shrewsbury And this worm - eaten hold of ragged ...
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... Noble earl , I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury . Northumberland . Good , an God will ! Lord Bardolph . 10 As good as heart can wish . The king is almost wounded to the death ; And , in the fortune of my lord your son , Prince ...
... Noble earl , I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury . Northumberland . Good , an God will ! Lord Bardolph . 10 As good as heart can wish . The king is almost wounded to the death ; And , in the fortune of my lord your son , Prince ...
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... noble lord ; Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask To fright our party . Northumberland . How doth my son and brother ? Thou tremblest ; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand . Even such a man ...
... noble lord ; Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask To fright our party . Northumberland . How doth my son and brother ? Thou tremblest ; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand . Even such a man ...
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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.