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Elements of Criticism - Page 362
by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1807
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Shakespeare's Stagecraft

J. L. Styan - 1967 - 260 pages
...a dish of wood : My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff: My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave. . . (in, iii, 147-54) As Richard reviews the symbols of his office in progression, his thoughts grow...
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Four Histories

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pages
...for a dish of wood, My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff, My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little, little grave, an obscure grave; Or I'll be buried in the King's highway, Some way of common trade where subjects' feet...
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Approach to Shakespeare

Gilian West - 2015 - 105 pages
...for a dish of wood, My sc6ptre for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave Or I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' f6et...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...for a dish of wood, My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff, My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave; Or I'll be buried in the king's high way, Some way of common trade, where subjects'...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...for a dish of wood, My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff, My subjects for a pair of carved saints, iam obscure grave; — Or I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects'...
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The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology

Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz - 1997 - 622 pages
...for a dish of wood: My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff: My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. The shiver of those anaphoric clauses is followed by a profusion of gruesome images...
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Gravelight

Marion Zimmer Bradley - 1998 - 356 pages
...she would once have thought it to summon storms with a wave of her hand. FIFTEEN THE GAP IS THE GRAVE And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave; — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE / GUESS I MANAGED TO SLEEP A LITTLE AFTER ALL. Truth uncoiled...
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William Shakespeare, Richard II

Martin Coyle - 1999 - 196 pages
...for a dish of wood: My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff: My subjects for a pair of carved saints. And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. (III.iii.l47ff.) The shiver of those anaphoric clauses is followed by a profusion of...
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Richard II

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 270 pages
...dish of wood, 150 My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff, My subjects for a pair of carved saints, And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little, little grave, an obscure grave; Or I'll be buried in the King's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet...
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A Mirror for Magistrates and the de Casibus Tradition

Paul Budra, Paul Vincent Budra - 2000 - 148 pages
...Richard, in the Flint Castle scene (3.3), he rushes towards a tragic end, offering, unbidden, to give 'my large kingdom for a little grave, / A little little grave, an obscure grave' (i53-4). His ability to summon up all the possible humiliations that majesty is prone...
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