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... beast in him ; but Richard II has too little ; and when his queen and he part , she accuses of unmanly weakness one who should more properly be a ' lion ' and ' king of beasts ' ( V. i . 34 ) . His religious and tragic mysticism is ...
... beast in him ; but Richard II has too little ; and when his queen and he part , she accuses of unmanly weakness one who should more properly be a ' lion ' and ' king of beasts ' ( V. i . 34 ) . His religious and tragic mysticism is ...
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... beasts May have the world in empire . ( IV . iii . 384. ) Beasts ' . All Shakespeare's work aims variously at controlling , fighting , or , at the best , using , the ' beast ' in man . His Saint George takes different forms , but the ...
... beasts May have the world in empire . ( IV . iii . 384. ) Beasts ' . All Shakespeare's work aims variously at controlling , fighting , or , at the best , using , the ' beast ' in man . His Saint George takes different forms , but the ...
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... beasts ' ; Coriolanus is compared to a dragon - so is Lear in his first wrath and Richard III called a ' cacodemon ' ; and so on . Last comes Caliban , the fish - monster , at once beast , savage , and semi - devil . Against Caliban is ...
... beasts ' ; Coriolanus is compared to a dragon - so is Lear in his first wrath and Richard III called a ' cacodemon ' ; and so on . Last comes Caliban , the fish - monster , at once beast , savage , and semi - devil . Against Caliban is ...
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OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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