This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... true within itself ? MONTAGUE : But the safer when ' tis backed by France . HASTINGS : ' Tis better using France than trusting France . Let us be back'd with God and with the seas , And with their helps only defend ourselves ; In them ...
... true within itself ? MONTAGUE : But the safer when ' tis backed by France . HASTINGS : ' Tis better using France than trusting France . Let us be back'd with God and with the seas , And with their helps only defend ourselves ; In them ...
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... true royalty is very close to his conception of divinity ; indeed , he sees one as an at- tempt to attune man's troubled existence on earth directly to the other . In the wider plan and pattern of the world , Shakespeare at the last ...
... true royalty is very close to his conception of divinity ; indeed , he sees one as an at- tempt to attune man's troubled existence on earth directly to the other . In the wider plan and pattern of the world , Shakespeare at the last ...
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... true , at this hour , of London . Beyond the midnight tempest will rise a dawn ; and after the crashing and sickening breakers , calm . To be true to that dawn , and that calm , will be England's heavy task- a heavier task , and a more ...
... true , at this hour , of London . Beyond the midnight tempest will rise a dawn ; and after the crashing and sickening breakers , calm . To be true to that dawn , and that calm , will be England's heavy task- a heavier task , and a more ...
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