The Life of Sir John FalstaffLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 - 196 pàgines "The plan of this work [is] ... to illustrate the life of Sir John Falstaff exclusively from the most striking passages in his career, as invented by Shakespeare"--Preface |
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Pàgina xi
... events that are known to have occurred , and personages who are known to have lived , -added to the fact that his character has been developed to greater length and with more apparent fondness than the poet was wont to indulge in ...
... events that are known to have occurred , and personages who are known to have lived , -added to the fact that his character has been developed to greater length and with more apparent fondness than the poet was wont to indulge in ...
Pàgina 4
... event which shed such lustre on its humble walls , should have been destroyed in the great fire of London ; whereby , as is well known to antiquarians , the wharves and buildings in that part of the town were burnt down to the water's ...
... event which shed such lustre on its humble walls , should have been destroyed in the great fire of London ; whereby , as is well known to antiquarians , the wharves and buildings in that part of the town were burnt down to the water's ...
Pàgina 28
... events . Fain would I tell of the many novel and wonderful things which delighted Jack's eyes and ears on his memorable ride to London , pleasantly diverting his mind from dwelling upon disquieting themes , such as forest laws , broken ...
... events . Fain would I tell of the many novel and wonderful things which delighted Jack's eyes and ears on his memorable ride to London , pleasantly diverting his mind from dwelling upon disquieting themes , such as forest laws , broken ...
Pàgina 37
... events in the life of such a person which , in justice to chivalry and noble birth , the historian may not pass over ... event were conveyed to his son and successor , then residing in the English town of Calais , by a faithful attendant ...
... events in the life of such a person which , in justice to chivalry and noble birth , the historian may not pass over ... event were conveyed to his son and successor , then residing in the English town of Calais , by a faithful attendant ...
Pàgina 61
... Bardolph and Agincourt causes the historian to drop a tear on his proof sheet , in anticipation of a painful event that inexorable duty will compel him to chronicle by and by . H A prospective difficulty , such as could not have been.
... Bardolph and Agincourt causes the historian to drop a tear on his proof sheet , in anticipation of a painful event that inexorable duty will compel him to chronicle by and by . H A prospective difficulty , such as could not have been.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 79 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Pàgina vii - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Pàgina 93 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. Is it insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it : — therefore, I 'U none of it : honour is a mere scutcheon : — and so ends my catechism.
Pàgina 89 - twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit ? I lie, I am no counterfeit. To die is to be a counterfeit ; for he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man : but to counterfeit dying, when, a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed.
Pàgina 68 - I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the heir-apparent ? should I turn upon the true prince? why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life; I for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.
Pàgina 93 - tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o
Pàgina 68 - I have peppered two of them : two, I am sure, I have paid ; two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, — if 1 tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward; — here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me, P.
Pàgina 93 - tis no matter ; Honour pricks me on. Tea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No.
Pàgina 68 - Go thy .ways, old Jack; die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat, and grows old...
Pàgina 98 - Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age ? Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly ? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity ? and will you vet call yourself young?