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... speech , spoken before the two kings : Let it not disgrace me If I demand before this royal view , What rub or what impediment there is , Why that the naked , poor , and mangled Peace , Dear nurse of arts , plenties , and joyful births ...
... speech , spoken before the two kings : Let it not disgrace me If I demand before this royal view , What rub or what impediment there is , Why that the naked , poor , and mangled Peace , Dear nurse of arts , plenties , and joyful births ...
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... speeches , a closely similar awareness of war's brutality . Here words such as my country ' , the various images of ... speech Timon's words labour under an agonised sense of war's hideousness even when his refusal to assist the senate ...
... speeches , a closely similar awareness of war's brutality . Here words such as my country ' , the various images of ... speech Timon's words labour under an agonised sense of war's hideousness even when his refusal to assist the senate ...
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... speech , it is said , Her life was beast - like and devoid of pity ' ( V. iii . 199 ) ; for pity is constituent to ... speech near the play's con- clusion closely recalls both the final speech of King John and John of Gaunt's prophecy in ...
... speech , it is said , Her life was beast - like and devoid of pity ' ( V. iii . 199 ) ; for pity is constituent to ... speech near the play's con- clusion closely recalls both the final speech of King John and John of Gaunt's prophecy in ...
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OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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