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... destiny wrestle : with and overcomes the murderous power - lust . Such are Shakespeare's two main studies of crimina power . But he has a fine feeling for soldiership , as in thes lines from Othello : O ! now , for ever Farewell the ...
... destiny wrestle : with and overcomes the murderous power - lust . Such are Shakespeare's two main studies of crimina power . But he has a fine feeling for soldiership , as in thes lines from Othello : O ! now , for ever Farewell the ...
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... destiny so clearly apparent in John of Gaunt's prophetic utterance and so subtly implied also by the praise accorded the powers of the English king in Mac- beth . In Henry VIII we watch a king - not at all the ' bluff King Hal ' of a ...
... destiny so clearly apparent in John of Gaunt's prophetic utterance and so subtly implied also by the praise accorded the powers of the English king in Mac- beth . In Henry VIII we watch a king - not at all the ' bluff King Hal ' of a ...
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... destiny ; and it is the sense of England's destiny which we have to recapture . And if you ask me how , I know only one way -by reading and re - reading such speeches as those I have been quoting , especially Cranmer's prophecy and John ...
... destiny ; and it is the sense of England's destiny which we have to recapture . And if you ask me how , I know only one way -by reading and re - reading such speeches as those I have been quoting , especially Cranmer's prophecy and John ...
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