This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... once seen to smile ; Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rent the air Are made , not mark'd ; where violent sorrow seems A modern ecstasy ; the dead man's knell Is there scarce ask'd for who ; and good men's lives Expire before the ...
... once seen to smile ; Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rent the air Are made , not mark'd ; where violent sorrow seems A modern ecstasy ; the dead man's knell Is there scarce ask'd for who ; and good men's lives Expire before the ...
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... thus far hear me , Cromwell ; And , when I am forgotten , as I shall be , And sleep in dull cold marble , where no mention Of me more must be heard of , say , I taught thee , d Say , Wolsey , that once trod the ways of THIS SCEPTRED ISLE ...
... thus far hear me , Cromwell ; And , when I am forgotten , as I shall be , And sleep in dull cold marble , where no mention Of me more must be heard of , say , I taught thee , d Say , Wolsey , that once trod the ways of THIS SCEPTRED ISLE ...
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Shakespeare's Message for England at War George Wilson Knight. Shakespeare's dream of what was once recorded to have happened above Caesarean Rome is appallingly true , at this hour , of London . Beyond the midnight tempest will rise a ...
Shakespeare's Message for England at War George Wilson Knight. Shakespeare's dream of what was once recorded to have happened above Caesarean Rome is appallingly true , at this hour , of London . Beyond the midnight tempest will rise a ...
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