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" When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. "
The Plays of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ... - Page 485
by William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847
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The Tragedies of Æschylus

Aeschylus - Danaids (Greek mythology) - 1849 - 340 pages
...part i. act v. sc. 5. Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this' body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now, two paces of the* vilest earth Is room enough. 4 Surely the full stop after TTO\IV in v. 749 should be removed, anfl a colon, or mark of hyperbaton...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors ...

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 576 pages
...worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...vilest earth Is room enough. — This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make...
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War; Religiously, Morally and Historically Considered

Peter Freeland Aiken - 1850 - 144 pages
...isle against a leaguing world." THOMPSON'S Liberty. " 111 weaVd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough." SHAKSPEARE. The greater part of the world is still in heathen ignorance and superstition, imperfectly...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Comedies ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 544 pages
...worms, brave Percy : Fare thee well, great heart ! — Dl-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...earth Is room enough : — This earth, that bears thee clc:id, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not...
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The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 546 pages
...worms, brave Percy: Fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...earth Is room enough : — This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...ON Tin DEATH OF HOTSPUR. Brave Percy, fare thee well. Ill weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...vilest earth Is room enough: — This earth, that bears thee dead. Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 744 pages
...worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weaved ambition, how much art . thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...vilest earth Is room enough. — This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a 'gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1851 - 554 pages
...PASSAGES. In Shakspeare's Henry IV., Act V. Sc. 4., the Prince exclaims, beholding Percy's corpse, — " When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough I " In Ovid we find the following parallel : — " jacet ccce Tibullus, Vix manet e toto parva quod...
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William Shakspeare's Complete Works, Dramatic and Poetic, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 512 pages
...worms, brave Percy : Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...earth Is room enough : — This earth, that bears thee dead. Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make...
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 550 pages
...worms, brave Percy : Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...vilest earth Is room enough :— This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make...
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