 | Laura Di Michele - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 380 pages
...the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier Lands [...] England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky...shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune. (II, i, w. 44-65)' 1 Significativo è che Tate riscriva questa tragedia shakespearina nel 1681 con... | |
 | Sidney Lee - Drama - 2006 - 260 pages
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 | Thomas Page Anderson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 252 pages
...residual demand placed on the present from a past contaminated with fratricide. Gaunt says to Richard: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of wat'ry Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds. (2.1.61-4)... | |
 | Ruth Mackay - Labor - 2006 - 316 pages
...University, 2000), 221-222. S9 Quevedo, "Espanadefendida." Shakespeare, too, had John of Gaunt say: "That England, that was wont to conquer others / Hath made a shameful conquest of itself" (Richard II, Act II, Scene i). ture in addition to education. ... I believe that morality would have... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 2006 - 289 pages
...leased out, like to a tenement, Or pelting farm, these brave and rocky shores 'Gainst watery Neptune now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds, America, who conquers but to free Hath made a shameful conquest: self in fee. A thousand flatterers... | |
 | Jack Gauntlett - Fiction - 2007 - 272 pages
...reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out,-1 die pronouncing it,Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky...conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah! Would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death. Brian Anstruther-Plowman,... | |
 | Sandra Logan - History - 2007 - 384 pages
...the world, Is now leas'd out ... Like to a tenement or pelting farm. (2.1.57-60) He adds that England is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten...conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. (2.1.63-6) In Gaunt's idealization, England's value lies in its form of government and in its people,... | |
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This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious... 
