 | 1833 - 636 pages
...Henry V. plainly tells us that the drama had established itself on the very arena of savage sports. " Can this Cock-pit hold The vasty fields of France,...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt ?" No theatre is indeed without its pit ; in its origin a place for combat. Hence we have the expression... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 424 pages
...appeals from the poverty of theatrical representation to the excited imagination of his audience. " Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France?...place, a million; And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work : Suppose, within the girdle of these Trails Are now confin'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 430 pages
...appeals from the poverty of theatrical representation to the excited imagination of his audience. - " Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France?...place, a million; And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work : Suppose, within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 412 pages
...appeals from the poverty of theatrical representation to the excited imagination of his audience. " Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France?...place, a million ; And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work : Suppose, within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1834 - 418 pages
...he appeals from the poverty of theatrical representation to the excited imagination of his audience. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France?...place, a million; And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work : Suppose, within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd... | |
 | John Francis Davis - 1836 - 582 pages
...On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Can tliis cock-pit hold The vasty field of France, or may we cram, Within this wooden O, the...pardon, since a crooked figure may Attest, in little space, a million ; And let us, cyphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work: Suppose... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 484 pages
...to bring forth So great au object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty field of France, or may we eram, Within this wooden O, the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt ? O pardon, since a erooked figure may Attest, in little space, a million ; And let us, cyphers to this great account,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 556 pages
...flat, unraised spirit, that hath dared, 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,1 the very casques, That did affright the air at Agincourt ? O, pardon ! since a crooked figure may... | |
 | John Francis Davis - 1836 - 478 pages
...On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty field of France, or may we cram, Within this wooden O, the very casques That did aftiight the air at Agin court ? O pardon, since a crooked figure may Attest, in little space, a million... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 698 pages
...Henry V. he asks pardon for having dared " On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ?...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt ?"' and requests his audience to piece out the imperfections of the theatre with their thoughts. This... | |
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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? 
