 Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies. — Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords; This earth shall have a feeling, and these stones Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's...  Characters of Shakespear's Plays - Page 138by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James C. Bulman - 1985 - 276 pages
...begins the scene with an apparently conventional assertion of heroic will, full of bellicose imagery: This earth shall have a feeling, and these stones Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. (3.2.24-26) Yet Richard asserts not what he will do, but rather... | |
 | Paul Anthony Samuelson - 1966 - 1062 pages
...meeting went. Remembering our custom, Once a governor always a governor; and remembering the lines Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an annointed King: remembering all this, I should specify it was Professor Hall who answered my query, saying : ' I could... | |
 | Margaret Visser - 2010 - 356 pages
...stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?" As Shakespeare put it many centuries later, Not all the water in the rough, rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king. When a Jewish king was anointed by a priest or a prophet, he became a person permanently... | |
 | Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...the subject of law, theology, legend, and myth. Its apogee was heralded by Shakespeare's Richard II: "Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm from an anointed king!" Its hold on the imagination could be seen in the paradox that it was reaffirmed even... | |
 | G. H. Hardy - 1992 - 158 pages
...that there are any such things as poetical ideas Poetry is not the thing said but a way of saying it.' Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King. Could lines be better, and could ideas be at once more trite and more false? The poverty... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pages
...lurking adder, » Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies. Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords. This earth...these stones Prove armed soldiers ere her native king 6-7 / ... rebels. The two words are sucked their poison from the earth. contrasted. 15 beavy-gaited... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...lurking adder, Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies. — Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords: This earth...stones Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. BISHOP OF CARLISLE. Fear not, my lord: that Power that made you... | |
 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1997 - 308 pages
...are any such things as poetical ideas. . . . Poetry is not the thing said but a way of saying it." Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King. Could lines be better, and could ideas be at once more trite and more false? The poverty... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...by their birth. 10447 Richard II Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle. smell, 10448 Richard II heus Unbound' The dust of creeds outworn. 10701 'Prometheus Unbou anointed king; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord. 10449 Richard... | |
 | Valerie Ann Worwood - 1999 - 368 pages
...David. Shakespeare described the spiritual and irreversible nature of the anointing of Richard II: "Not all the water in the rough rude sea; Can wash the balm from an anointed king; The breath of worldly men cannot depose; The deputy elected of the Lord." The ingredients... | |
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