 This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious...  The Complete Art of Poetry ... - Page 330by Charles Gildon - 1718Full view - About this book
 | Deanne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 308 pages
...regulation confirms Gaunt's sense of England's enslavement as well as its own potential for colonial rule: "With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds; / That...England, that was wont to conquer others, / Hath made a shameful conquest of itself" (2.1.64-6). While Richard expresses his domination of England in acts... | |
 | Emma Smith - Drama - 2004 - 294 pages
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 | Gabriel Egan - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 178 pages
...Is now leased out — I die pronouncing it — Like to a tenement or pelting farm. England . . . ... is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. (2.1.59-64) Editors of the play are unanimous that here Richard is accused of forming an economic arrangement... | |
 | John Baxter - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...pronouncing it Like to a tenement or pelting farm. England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of wat'ry...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Performing Arts - 2011 - 355 pages
...pronouncing it — 65 Like to a tenement or pelting farm. England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of wat'ry...shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. 70 That England that was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Performing Arts - 2011 - 355 pages
...pronouncing it — 65 Like to a tenement or pelting farm. England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of wat'ry...shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. 70 That England that was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would... | |
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