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" When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough: this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. "
M Annaei Lucani Pharsaliae liber primus, ed. with Engl. intr. and notes by W ... - Page 29
by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus - 1875
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An Inquiry Into the Philosophy and Religion of Shakspere

William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 570 pages
...worms, brave Percy ; Fare thee well, great heart ! I'11-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough :— This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears...
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Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...worms, brave Percy: Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound , But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough : — This earth, that bears thee deac Bears...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1903 - 666 pages
...the Prince, when he kills Hotspur, speaks thus :— lll-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. Shakspeare has in ' Uymbeline ' a line with...
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The Dramatic Works of W. Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...worm», brave Percy ; Fare thee well, gri'iit heart ! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! iam" But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. — This earth that bears thee dead, SCENE IV....
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The Tragedies of Æschylus

Aeschylus - Danaids (Greek mythology) - 1849 - 340 pages
...part i. act v. sc. 5. Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this' body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; But now, two paces of the* vilest earth Is room enough. 4 Surely the full stop after TTO\IV in v....
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 73-74

Languages, Modern - 1885 - 982 pages
...Worten des Prinzen Heinrich an der Leiche llotspurs: I\\-weaved ambilion, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bonnd ; But now tivo paces of the vilesl earth Is room enoiigh. l H. IV. V, 4, 88. 146. Der Gebrauch...
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The romance of the peerage; or, Curiosities of family history, Volume 3

George Lillie Craik - 1849 - 418 pages
...hitherto unresting body, over which it was pronounced, as it lay thus shrunk and still, that, when it " did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound." Thus darkly upon the house of Percy opened the fifteenth century. Lord Percy had left one son and one...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 606 pages
...art dust, P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.—This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears...
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War; Religiously, Morally and Historically Considered

Peter Freeland Aiken - 1850 - 144 pages
...isle against a leaguing world." THOMPSON'S Liberty. " 111 weaVd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough." SHAKSPEARE. The greater part of the world...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors ...

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 576 pages
...worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. — This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears...
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