This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... nobility that is her right and duty , seems to be selling for a temporary financial advantage what is a sacred trust , the condemnation is ut- tered in a speech of glistening beauty , defining , in the very act of condemnation , the ...
... nobility that is her right and duty , seems to be selling for a temporary financial advantage what is a sacred trust , the condemnation is ut- tered in a speech of glistening beauty , defining , in the very act of condemnation , the ...
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... nobility , Shakespeare has worked through to such wise counsel as this of Wolsey . But where , then , is the message for England ? Is England to become a religious recluse among the nations and no more — if that were possible ? Has not ...
... nobility , Shakespeare has worked through to such wise counsel as this of Wolsey . But where , then , is the message for England ? Is England to become a religious recluse among the nations and no more — if that were possible ? Has not ...
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... nobility and wisdom as Shake- speare's Athens rejects his Timon , or his Milan , Prospero . The royalty of a nation is its soul , and its soul its destiny ; and it is the sense of England's destiny which we have to recapture . And if ...
... nobility and wisdom as Shake- speare's Athens rejects his Timon , or his Milan , Prospero . The royalty of a nation is its soul , and its soul its destiny ; and it is the sense of England's destiny which we have to recapture . And if ...
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