This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... sleep ! O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse , how have I frighted thee , hat thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down nd steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather , sleep , liest thou in smoky cribs , Upon uneasy pallets stretching ...
... sleep ! O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse , how have I frighted thee , hat thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down nd steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather , sleep , liest thou in smoky cribs , Upon uneasy pallets stretching ...
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... sleep in peace , the tyrant being slain ; ou do fight against your country's foes , ur country's fat shall pay your pains the hire ; ou do fight in safeguard of your wives , ur wives shall welcome home the conquerors ; ou do free your ...
... sleep in peace , the tyrant being slain ; ou do fight against your country's foes , ur country's fat shall pay your pains the hire ; ou do fight in safeguard of your wives , ur wives shall welcome home the conquerors ; ou do free your ...
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... thus far hear me , Cromwell ; And , when I am forgotten , as I shall be , And sleep in dull cold marble , where no mention Of me more must be heard of , say , I taught thee , d Say , Wolsey , that once trod the ways of THIS SCEPTRED ISLE ...
... thus far hear me , Cromwell ; And , when I am forgotten , as I shall be , And sleep in dull cold marble , where no mention Of me more must be heard of , say , I taught thee , d Say , Wolsey , that once trod the ways of THIS SCEPTRED ISLE ...
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