This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased 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 Nineteenth Century - Page 4901882Full view - About this book
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...envious siege Of wal'rv Neptune, isnowbound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment-bonds ; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Grief. Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows. Which show like grief itself, but are not so... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1817 - 372 pages
...bound in with the trinmphant sea, Like to a tenement, or pelting farm : Whose rocky shore beats bacsk the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound...conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself: How happy then were my ensuing death! O, would the scandal vanish with my life, Enter King RICHARO... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 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 wont to conquer others, r Hath made a shameful conquest of itself." The character of Bolingbroke, afterwards Henry IV. is drawn... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 424 pages
...reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it,) Like to a tenement or pelting 5 farm : England, bound in with the triumphant sea,...conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself: O, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death ! Enter King RICHARD,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious surge Of wat'ry Neptune, is bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment...others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself." The character of Bolingbroke, afterwards Henry IV., is drawn with a masterly hand : — patient for... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious surge Of wat'ry Neptune, is bound in with sbame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. That England,...others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself." The character of Bolingbroke, afterwards Henry IV., is drawn with a masterly hand : — patient for... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...envious siegt Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bo&Js; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself: O, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing deatk! iter Knig RICHAHD,... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots,1 and rotten parchment bonds;* That England, that was...conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself: O, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death ! Enter King RICHARD... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd an : The best thing in Is his complexion ; and faster...Did make offence, his eye did heal it up. He is not : O, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death! Enter King RICHARD,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, .^nd rotten parchment bonds ; That England, that was wont...conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself : O, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death ! Enter King RICHARD... | |
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