This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... forces work . uppose within the girdle of these walls re now confin'd two mighty monarchies , Whose high uprearéd and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder : iece out our imperfections with your thoughts : nto a ...
... forces work . uppose within the girdle of these walls re now confin'd two mighty monarchies , Whose high uprearéd and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder : iece out our imperfections with your thoughts : nto a ...
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... forces are stimulated into opposition . and Macbeth finds himself , at the last , attacked both from outside and from within his own country . Finally , like Richard , he condemns himself . The saving forces come from England : Some ...
... forces are stimulated into opposition . and Macbeth finds himself , at the last , attacked both from outside and from within his own country . Finally , like Richard , he condemns himself . The saving forces come from England : Some ...
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... forces . Much of Shakespeare's most powerful poetry is of this elemental sort . Passage after passage - many examples I have quoted in this essay - describes the angry seas that test ad- venturing ships ; and these are compared , over ...
... forces . Much of Shakespeare's most powerful poetry is of this elemental sort . Passage after passage - many examples I have quoted in this essay - describes the angry seas that test ad- venturing ships ; and these are compared , over ...
Common terms and phrases
1940 Reprinted Agincourt Armada armies awake Banquo Banquo's descendants BASIL BLACKWELL battle bless blesséd blood Bolingbroke Britain call'd condemnation Coriolanus crack of doom Cranmer's prophecy Crispian Cromwell crown deeply destiny doth enemies England must oppose England should act English king eyes Falstaff Farewell fear feeling fight Fortinbras France gentle glory God's HASTINGS hath head heaven Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII holy honour John of Gaunt knows last play Macbeth MENENIUS mercy Message for ENGLAND mother murders nobility peace perilous narrow ocean Perjury pity princes prophetic Queen realms under James religious Richard Richard II rouse royal sceptred isle Scotland sense of England's Shake Shakespeare shows SHAKESPEARIAN SICINIUS sleep soul Spanish Armada speaks speare's last speech sword tell the Dauphin thee thine Timon to-day truth two-fold balls tyrant union of realms victory voice of England whilst WILSON KNIGHT wins Wolsey words