| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - English fiction - 1142 pages
...patriotism. He says himself — or Shakespeare says it for him, which is much the same thing — " At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes Of burning cressets . . . ... I can call spirits from the vasty deep." And few among the lower orders in the principality... | |
| A. C. Harwood - Literary Criticism - 1964 - 68 pages
...mysticism of Glendower; they are only united in their hatred of Bolingbroke. * Act V, Scene 5. Glend. 'at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery...burning cressets; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward. Hot. Why, so it would have done at the same season, if... | |
| Earthquakes - 1970 - 760 pages
...Colorado 80302 (Telephone 303-499 1000, ext. i (Telepnon Science reconsiders an unexplained phenomenon: GLENDOWER: . . . At my nativity The front of heaven...burning cressets; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward. HOTSPUR: Why, so it would have done at the same season,... | |
| C.R. Kitchin - Science - 1990 - 218 pages
...may be found along a line of sight just below the Lion's tail (figure 2. 14). JourneyS Phoenix Rising Glendower: At my nativity, the front of heaven was...burning cressets, and at my birth the frame and huge foundation of the Earth shaked like a coward. Henry IV part 1 W Shakespeare On our first two journeys... | |
| Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...order to guarantee the success of the rebellion, Glendower informs the others about his horoscope: at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery...burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward. (1H IV, III, 1, 11-14) From this he concludes that The... | |
| Fred Hoyle - Astrophysicists - 1994 - 502 pages
...everlastingly towards adventure. Owen Glendower, in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part /, says to Hotspur: ... at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery...burning cressets; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the Earth Shaked like a coward. So it was at my own birth, the fiery shapes and the shaking... | |
| William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...HOTSPUR And you in hell, 10 As oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of. GLENDOWER I cannot blame him. At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery...burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward. HOTSPUR Why, so it would have done At the same season... | |
| Elissa R. Henken - Folklore - 1996 - 268 pages
...in blood, but he does have Glyndwr describe a birth well-marked by wonders of heaven and earth: ... At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery...burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward. I say the earth did shake when I was born. The heavens... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...spoke of. OWEN GLENDOWER. I cannot blame him: at my nativity The front of heaven was full of ñery nd the start of spleen, — To fight against me under Percy's p foundation of the earth Shakcd like a coward. HOTSPUR. Why, so it would have done at the same season,... | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell - Fiction - 2001 - 422 pages
...as for his patriotism. He says himself- or Shakespeare says it for him, which is much the same thing 'At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes Of burning cressets .... I can call spirits from the vasty deep.' And few among the lower orders in the principality would... | |
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