| William Shakespeare - 1901 - 394 pages
...high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder : Act I. Sc. i. THE LIFE OF Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into...o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years 30 Into an hour-glass : for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1901 - 562 pages
...perilous narrow ocean parts asunder : Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a theusand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance;...o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years 30 Into an hour-glass : for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your... | |
| Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1901 - 494 pages
...distances of space. The opening prologue prepares us for this view. In it we are told that " 'T is your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry...accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass." In the prologue to the second act the same idea is repeated. There the audience is specifically requested... | |
| William Edward Simonds - English literature - 1900 - 510 pages
...might be known by different names at various times. The Earl Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder : Piece out...'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings," etc. Prologue to King Henry V. of Leicester's Men became Lord Strange's in 1588. In 1592 Lord Strange... | |
| William Edward Simonds - English literature - 1902 - 510 pages
...Earl Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder : Piece out onr imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand...'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings," etc. Prologue to King Henry V, 122 FROM CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE of Leicester's Men became Lord Strange's... | |
| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1903 - 602 pages
...girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder. Piece out...accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass." These dramas were originally presented to the world under the title of ' Histories,' and Shakspeare... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1909 - 236 pages
...girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, 20 Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: Piece out...o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years 30 Into an hour-glass : for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1900 - 1070 pages
...girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, "Whose high upreared and abutting fronts, The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder; Piece out....times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour glass. There is, in my opinion, no strict relevance in these lines to the question at issue whether... | |
| Harvard University - Classical philology - 1905 - 190 pages
...make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoof i' the receiving earth ; For 'tis your thoughts that...Turning the accomplishment of many years • Into an hour glass." In the Suppliants there is a continual reference to the statues and altar which must be... | |
| Melveena McKendrick - Drama - 1989 - 356 pages
...creation of the play's illusion even if they were not actually bidden, as Shakespeare bade his audience, Think when we talk of horses that you see them Printing...For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our Kings. (Opening chorus, Henry V) Clearly many of those present, even in an audience trained to listen,36 would... | |
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