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Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections ... - Page 41
by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820
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The works of William Shakspere; from the text of the editions by C. Knight ...

William Shakespeare - 1859 - 1120 pages
...I* now leas M out, (I die pronouncing it.) Like to a tenement, or pelting д farm : England, Ixmnd in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats...watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky bluts, and rotten parchment bonds; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...rocky shore beats back the envious surge Of wat'ry Neptune, is bound in with shame, With inky-blots and rotten parchment bonds. That England, that was...others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself." The character of Bolingbroke, afterwards Henry IV., is drawn with a masterly hand : — patient for...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character) - 1859 - 576 pages
...rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds : That England that was...to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of it self. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death ! Enter King...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 11

English periodicals - 1882 - 1194 pages
...rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds : That England, that was...others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.' 2 It is pretended, again, that the Company-promoters would be hardly used if now — when for the first...
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Report of Proceedings, Volume 25

Washington State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 728 pages
...founded their empire, and reared the system of law under which they have prospered and become great. "Bound in with the triumphant sea, whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege of watery Neptune," these states face toward the west rather than toward the east and have a common aspiration and a common...
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Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography, and Theatre

James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pages
...Reputation through the World, Is now leas'd out, (I dye pronouncing it) Like to a Tenement, or pelting Farm. England, bound in with the triumphant Sea, Whose rocky...beats back the envious Siege Of watery Neptune, is bound in with Shame, With INKY BLOTS, and ROTTEN PARCHMENT BONDS. That England, that was wont to conquer...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...shore beats back the envious siege Of wat'ry Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inkly blots and rotten parchment bonds. That England that was...conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death! (38) Act III, Scene...
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Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's Histories

Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of wat'ry Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds; That England, that was...conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. (II, 1, 51-66) England as the "teeming womb" begins to replace the cosmological order as a frame of...
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Four Histories

William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...through the world, Is now leased out - I die pronouncing it 60 Like to a tenement or pelting farm. England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky...watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. That England that was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful...
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History Through the Opera Glass: From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon

George Jellinek - Europe - 1994 - 436 pages
...(Verdi); lolanta (Tchaikovsky); Falstaff(V&Tdi);Ariane et Barbe-Bleu (Dukas); Bluebeard's Castle (Bart6k) England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky...watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful...
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