 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 164 pages
...up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage; 9 Then lend the eye a terrible aspect: 10 Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it 12 As fearfully as doth a galled rock 13 O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, 14 Swilled with the... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Drama - 1999 - 334 pages
...urges the transformation of body into an instrument of war: Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood. Then lend the eye a terrible aspect: Let it pry through the portage of the head Lake the brass cannon. . . . (3.1.7-11) At the same time, Henry punctiliously insists on differences... | |
 | John Seidensticker, Peter Jackson, Sarah Christie - Nature - 1999 - 404 pages
...breach in the walls of Harfleur fortress in France with the words, 'Imitate the action of the tiger, stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage.' The opening lines of the poem by the 19* century English poet, Thomas Blake, conjure up a vivid image:... | |
 | John Julius Norwich - History - 2001 - 438 pages
...action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage. Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it...galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide . . . Recognizing... | |
 | Peter Edward Russell - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 508 pages
...Breach: AlcIcer-Ceguer when the blast of war blows in our ears. Then imitate the action of the tiger. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise...hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect Shakespeare, King Henrj V, Act 3 Scene i O n his return to Lagos at the end of his second voyage, Cadamosto... | |
 | Joan Abse - History - 2000 - 344 pages
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Let it pry through the portage of the head. Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. 
