This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... royalty he leaves The healing benediction . With this strange virtue , He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy , And sundry blessings hang about his throne That speak him full of grace . Now , backed by England , and with an English army to ...
... royalty he leaves The healing benediction . With this strange virtue , He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy , And sundry blessings hang about his throne That speak him full of grace . Now , backed by England , and with an English army to ...
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... royalty is very close to his conception of divinity ; indeed , he sees one as an at- tempt to attune man's troubled existence on earth directly to the other . In the wider plan and pattern of the world , Shakespeare at the last feels ...
... royalty is very close to his conception of divinity ; indeed , he sees one as an at- tempt to attune man's troubled existence on earth directly to the other . In the wider plan and pattern of the world , Shakespeare at the last feels ...
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... royalty strange to us . We have therein forgotten some- thing of very great importance , rejecting the inmost prin- ciple and sunlike powers of nobility and wisdom as Shake- speare's Athens rejects his Timon , or his Milan , Prospero ...
... royalty strange to us . We have therein forgotten some- thing of very great importance , rejecting the inmost prin- ciple and sunlike powers of nobility and wisdom as Shake- speare's Athens rejects his Timon , or his Milan , Prospero ...
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