 When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough : this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.  Thirteen Satires of Juvenal - Page 126by Juvenal - 1878Full view - About this book
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...over Hotspur's corpse that fixes his tragedy firmly in the outmoded de casibus tradition: Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this...body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. (5.4.88-92) consciousness that,... | |
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