 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
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - Azerbaijan - 1847 - 506 pages
...time, which, with all its dominion over sublunary things, must itself at last be stopped. JOHNSON. 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 the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 574 pages
...thou art dust, And food for [Dies. P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...dust, And food for [Dies P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy: Fare thee well, great heart ! — 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 : — This earth, that bears... | |
 | William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 570 pages
...dust, And food for— [Dies. P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy ; Fare thee well, great heart ! I'11-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 :— This earth, that bears thee... | |
 | William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 574 pages
...worms, brave Percy ; Fare thee well, great heart ! I'11-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk I 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...And food for [Dies. P. Hen. For worm», brave Percy ; Fare thee well, gri'iit heart ! — Ill-weav'd n both! Len. May it please small a bound; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. — This earth that bears thee... | |
 | Aeschylus - Danaids (Greek mythology) - 1849 - 340 pages
...of it doth hold. King Henry IV. part i. act v. sc. 5. Fare thee well, great heart ! — 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. 4 Surely the full stop after... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 666 pages
...erit. In the ' First Part of Henry IV.' the Prince, when he kills Hotspur, speaks thus :— lll-weaved 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. Shakspeare has in ' Uymbeline... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1885 - 982 pages
...III, l, 148 gleicht sehr den Worten des Prinzen Heinrich an der Leiche llotspurs: I\\-weaved ambilion, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bonnd ; But now tivo paces of the vilesl earth Is room enoiigh. l H. IV. V, 4, 88. 146. Der... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1908 - 678 pages
...language. Shakspeare has hit on the same idea in ' Henry IV.' Prince Henry says of the dead Hotspur : — 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. E. YARDLEY. TXS will find "The... | |
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