 O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height!  Concise History of England in Epochs - Page 66by J. Fraser Corkran - 1871 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1852 - 330 pages
...base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean : Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostrils wide ; Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height." So, in speculation, refine as much as you please, intellectually and morally speaking, and you may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 916 pages
...confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide ; a professed tyrant to their sex ? Claud. No ; I pray...faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, Fathers, that, like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought, And sheath... | |
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Poetry - 1989 - 216 pages
...confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To...English! Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof; Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought, And sheath'd... | |
 | Donald Churchill - Drama - 1989 - 116 pages
...(MARCIA scratches.) Then lend the eye a terrible aspect. Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide: hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit to his full height! On, on ... (She scratches again.) MARCIA. Please Mr. Page. WALTER. On, on you noble English ... now attest... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - Performing Arts - 1992 - 168 pages
...wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up very spirit To his full height! On, on, you noblest English! Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof; Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn to even fought, And sheath'd their... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...confounded base. Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, (Ill, i) 57 From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night. The hum of either army stilly sounds,... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 384 pages
..."Stiffen the sinews," Henry urges before Harfleur, "Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, / Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit / To his full height! ... I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start" (3.1.7, 15-17, 31-32).... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...the sea) 111.1.7 conjure. Almost all editions follow 1 3 jutty his confounded hase beetle over its Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To...English, Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof! Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought, 2o And sheathed... | |
 | Carlo D'Este - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 1028 pages
...summon up the blood Then lend the eye a terrible aspect Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height! On, On you noblest English! It was years before I found out ... that it was from Act III of Shakespeare's Henry V, but my sister... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height! On, on, you noble English, Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof, Fathers that like so many Alexanders Have... | |
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