This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... mother , to please whom he had first ambitious of military glory . What a bitter comment he barren nature , the suicidal nature , when driven n extreme of self - seeking honour , of those military s which to - day work so strongly on ...
... mother , to please whom he had first ambitious of military glory . What a bitter comment he barren nature , the suicidal nature , when driven n extreme of self - seeking honour , of those military s which to - day work so strongly on ...
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... mother dearly . MENENIUS : So did he me ; and he no more remembers his mother now than an eight - year - old horse . The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes : when he walks , he moves like an engine , and the ground shrinks before ...
... mother dearly . MENENIUS : So did he me ; and he no more remembers his mother now than an eight - year - old horse . The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes : when he walks , he moves like an engine , and the ground shrinks before ...
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... mother's scorn , as she him a traitor to his own land and family , beats down ride . He holds her hand in silence ' and speaks : O , mother , mother ! hat have you done ? Behold , the heavens do ope , he gods look down , and this ...
... mother's scorn , as she him a traitor to his own land and family , beats down ride . He holds her hand in silence ' and speaks : O , mother , mother ! hat have you done ? Behold , the heavens do ope , he gods look down , and this ...
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