This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... ocean parts asunder : iece out our imperfections with your thoughts : nto a thousand parts divide one man , and make imaginary puissance ; Think when we talk of horses that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i ' the receiving earth ...
... ocean parts asunder : iece out our imperfections with your thoughts : nto a thousand parts divide one man , and make imaginary puissance ; Think when we talk of horses that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i ' the receiving earth ...
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... ocean . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide , Hold hard the breath , and bend up every spirit To his full height ! On , on , you noblest English ! Whose blood is fet from fathers of war - proof ; Fathers that , like so many ...
... ocean . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide , Hold hard the breath , and bend up every spirit To his full height ! On , on , you noblest English ! Whose blood is fet from fathers of war - proof ; Fathers that , like so many ...
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... ocean . In his great mystic play , The Tempest , written , most significantly , just before Henry VIII , Shakespeare shows us a philosopher - king , Prospero , who is also an island - king , and whose magic is preeminently a magic of ocean ...
... ocean . In his great mystic play , The Tempest , written , most significantly , just before Henry VIII , Shakespeare shows us a philosopher - king , Prospero , who is also an island - king , and whose magic is preeminently a magic of ocean ...
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