 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 534 pages
...France. Enter Chorus. O, for a muse of fire , that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention I A kingdom for a stage, princes to act. And monarchs to behold the swellmg scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 514 pages
...Attendants. Enter CHORUS. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest' heaven of invention!' i A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold 1 the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, • '.. Assume the port of Mars... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1812 - 480 pages
...falling tears;+ Ere I consent to teach my lips injustice, Or wrong the orphan who has none to save him. * At his heels Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch fur employment. Heary VA t. Chorus. Death and destruction dog thee at the heels. Richard III. A. iv.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pages
...avoided. JOHNSON O. FOR a muse of fire, that would ascend •• The brightest heaven of invention ! • A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelljpg scene ! Then should the warlike Harry , HKe himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 446 pages
...has elsewhere observed, Shakspeare probably meant fire, sword, and famine. So, in King Henry V : " Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, " Assume...Mars; and, at his heels, " Leash'd in like hounds, should^mzVze, sword, saAJire, " Crouch for employment." The same observation is made by Steele, in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 942 pages
...Tfcrn should the warlike Harry, like himself, Asome the port of Mart ; and. at his h pels, Uisti'd in, like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The Hat unraised spirit, that liath dar'd, On tJili unworthy scaffold, to bring; forth '" ?reat an object... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...flights ; without any allusion to the Peripatetic system, or to the aspiring nature of fire. B. Chor. Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume...should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. Leas/it in like hounds, should famine, srcord, andjire, Crouch for employment. j Lot ; and, as I suppose,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...SHAK.SPEARE. Prologue. O, FOR a muse of lire, that would ascend, The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs...himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leasht in like hounds, should famine, sword. Crouch for employment. [and fire, Consideration. Consideration... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 588 pages
...hypocrisy ; and when hypocrisy might think proper to conclude her game, and let profligacy play her part, " Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume...should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment." Measures of this complexion would indeed account for ministerial taciturnity. It was the only species... | |
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O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd... 
