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" On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? "
Questions for Examination in English Literature: Chiefly Selected from ... - Page 56
by Walter William Skeat - 1873 - 100 pages
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 378 pages
...bring forth Within this wooden O, * the very casques, 4 The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram That did affright the air at Agincourt ? O, pardon...may Attest, in little place, a million ; And let us, cyphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work :' Suppose, within the girdle of these...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 424 pages
...flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd, On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object : Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France,...ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces 3 work : Suppose, within the girdle of these walls, Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies, Whose high...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 478 pages
...unraised spirit, that hath dar'd, On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object: Can I his cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we...this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work : Suppose, within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies, Whose high uprearcd...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...dor'd, On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object : Can this cockpit hold VOL. II. The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within...place, a million ; And let us, ciphers to this great accoinpt, On your imaginary forces work : Suppose, within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 578 pages
...Shakspeare himself uses cock-pit to express a small confined situation, without any particular reference : " Can this cock-pit hold " The vasty fields of France,...very casques " That did affright the air at Agincourt ? " * See an old collection of tales, entitled. Wits, Fits, and Fancies, 4to. 1595 : " When the great...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 17

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 498 pages
...flat unraised spirit4 that hath dar'd, On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ?...may we cram Within this wooden O * the very casques, 6 Holinshed, (p. 567,) when the people of Roan petitioned KingHenry V. has put this sentiment into...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 17

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...flat unraised spirit 4 that hath dar'd, On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O 5 the very casques, 6 Holinshed, (p. 567,) when the people of Roan petitioned King Henry V. has put...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 572 pages
...particular reference : '• Can this cock-pit hold 41 The vasty fields of France, — or may we cram, j •" Within this wooden O, the very casques " That did affright the air at Agincourt ? " 6 See an old collection of tales, entitled, Wits, Fits, and Fancies, 4to. 1595 : " When the great...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts ..., Volume 8

1836 - 496 pages
...beautiful apology in his prologue to Henry V. — " Can this cockpit bold The vasty field of France 1 or may we cram Within this wooden O, the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt." We begrudge the historical essayists, who only write commentaries on disputed points, for the edification...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 590 pages
...flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd, On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object: Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O 3 , the very casques, 4 That did affright the air at Agincourt ? O, pardon ! since a crooked figure...
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