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... doubt not ; For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble lustre in your eyes . I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips , Straining upon the start . The game's afoot : Follow your spirit ; and , upon this charge Cry ...
... doubt not ; For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble lustre in your eyes . I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips , Straining upon the start . The game's afoot : Follow your spirit ; and , upon this charge Cry ...
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... doubt as to its ness and final impotence . ichard III he gives us a clever psychological study . nard England is most obviously not being true to . He is deformed and suffers from a very modern rity - feeling , as his first speech shows ...
... doubt as to its ness and final impotence . ichard III he gives us a clever psychological study . nard England is most obviously not being true to . He is deformed and suffers from a very modern rity - feeling , as his first speech shows ...
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... doubt of a more reserved cast of thought and a deeper solemnity of utterance , to the prophecy of John of Gaunt ? It has as one would expect , at the end ; at the very end of Shake- speare's last play . For , at the christening ceremony ...
... doubt of a more reserved cast of thought and a deeper solemnity of utterance , to the prophecy of John of Gaunt ? It has as one would expect , at the end ; at the very end of Shake- speare's last play . For , at the christening ceremony ...
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