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... speech of glistening beauty , defining , in the very act of condemnation , the soul - splendour that is being wronged . In Richard II old John of Gaunt on his death - bed -one must , to get the full effect of the repetitions , read the ...
... speech of glistening beauty , defining , in the very act of condemnation , the soul - splendour that is being wronged . In Richard II old John of Gaunt on his death - bed -one must , to get the full effect of the repetitions , read the ...
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... speech a new lease of life , like the gathering of a new wave , in celebration of England's deathless sovereignty : CRANMER : Let me speak , sir , For heaven now bids me ; and the words I utter Let none think flattery , for they'll find ...
... speech a new lease of life , like the gathering of a new wave , in celebration of England's deathless sovereignty : CRANMER : Let me speak , sir , For heaven now bids me ; and the words I utter Let none think flattery , for they'll find ...
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... speeches , we come up against a sense of royalty strange to us . We have therein forgotten some- thing of very great importance , rejecting the inmost prin- ciple and sunlike powers of nobility and wisdom as Shake- speare's Athens ...
... speeches , we come up against a sense of royalty strange to us . We have therein forgotten some- thing of very great importance , rejecting the inmost prin- ciple and sunlike powers of nobility and wisdom as Shake- speare's Athens ...
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