| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...for we may live to have need of such a verse. 26 — iv. 4. MISCELLANEOUS. 1. England. This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse,...stubborn Jewry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son : This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world. 17... | |
| Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...negatively through the protagonists' attitudes toward it, John of Gaunt proclaims it quite explicitly: This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd...stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son; This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now... | |
| Keith Wilson - Transportation - 1994 - 276 pages
...of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse,...stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son; This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now... | |
| William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...expression comparable to 'More world by itself.' haste, less speed'. 5 2 Feared by inspiring fear by For Christian service and true chivalry As is the...stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son; This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now... | |
| William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Feared by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned...stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son; This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed have a secret to reveal. MARGARET [aside]. What though...seems a knight, And will not any way dishonour me. — This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is... | |
| Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...contrastively echoes. The condition of fertility, however, is specified in the next line of Gaunt 's laudatio: "This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, / Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth" (51-52). The alliterative and appositional redundancy of line 52 appears at first to reinforce Gaunt... | |
| Ania Loomba, Martin Orkin - Drama - 1998 - 328 pages
...of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse,...Jewry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now... | |
| Avraham Oz - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse,...Jewry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now... | |
| Ania Loomba, Martin Orkin - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...office of a wall. Or as a moat defensive to a house. Against the emy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. This nurse,...For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulehre in stubborn Jewry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son. This land of such dear souls,... | |
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