This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... religious wisdom and royal strength . The sense of heroic kingship crowning the first half of his work in Henry V was directly related to Christianity : We are no tyrant , but a Christian king ; Unto whose grace our passion is as ...
... religious wisdom and royal strength . The sense of heroic kingship crowning the first half of his work in Henry V was directly related to Christianity : We are no tyrant , but a Christian king ; Unto whose grace our passion is as ...
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... religious acceptance . Now , though individuals fall , the King , and therefore England , rises . He grows in strength and confidence . A feeling for personal tragedy is , as formerly in King John , very skillfully enwoven with a sense ...
... religious acceptance . Now , though individuals fall , the King , and therefore England , rises . He grows in strength and confidence . A feeling for personal tragedy is , as formerly in King John , very skillfully enwoven with a sense ...
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... religious recluse among the nations and no more — if that were possible ? Has not this , his last work , something more directly comparable , though no doubt of a more reserved cast of thought and a deeper solemnity of utterance , to ...
... religious recluse among the nations and no more — if that were possible ? Has not this , his last work , something more directly comparable , though no doubt of a more reserved cast of thought and a deeper solemnity of utterance , to ...
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