 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 trang
...Messengers, and Attendants. The SCENE, at the beginning of the Play, lies m England; but afterwards, wholly in France. Enter CHORUS. O, for a muse of fire,...heels, Leash 'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 632 trang
...wife, an hostess. Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Masengers, and Attendants. Enter Chorus. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend...himself, Assume the port of Mars; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 382 trang
...Messenger*, and Attendants. The SCENE, at the beginning of the Play, lies in England ; but afterwards wholly in France* Enter CHORUS. O, for a muse of fire,...himself, Assume the port of Mars; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 584 trang
...in England ; but afterwards, wholly in France. CHORUS. f\ For a muse of fire 2, that would ascend J and fire, [all, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles The flat unraised spirit, that hath darM,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 458 trang
...emptiness and narrowness of the last act, which a very little diligence might have easily avoided. O, FOR a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in, like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.2 But pardon, gentles... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 428 trang
...hostess. Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Messengers, and Attendants. . KING HENRY V. Enter CHORUS. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend...himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 trang
...emptiness and narrowness of the last act, which a very little diligence might have easily avoided. JOHNSON O. FOR a muse of fire, that would ascend •• The...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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 trang
...soft silencing your son. § 21. THE LIFE OF HENRY V. SHAK.SPEARE. Prologue. O, FOR a muse of lire, that would ascend, The brightest heaven of invention...himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leasht in like hounds, should famine, sword. Crouch for employment. [and fire, Consideration. Consideration... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 378 trang
...SCENE—at the beginning of the play, lies in England; but aftemards, wholly in France. I Enter CHORUS. V-Jj FOR a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Leash'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 trang
...the most striking images in all Shakespear is that given of war in the first lines of the Prologue. " O for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...heels Leash' d in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fore Crouch for employment." Rubens, if he had painted it, would not have improved upon this simile.... | |
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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... 
