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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 Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5

Walter Scott - 1837 - 936 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 ? Or may we cram Within thin wooden U, the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt ? O, pardpu ! since a crooked...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, Volume 3

1838 - 406 pages
...flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object :" " O, pardon ! since a crooked figure may Attest, in...this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work : " " Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ;** " For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck...
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Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd. On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object : ropier drawn, and DROMIO of Syracuse. Luc. God, for thy mercy ! they are loose agai 0, the very casques, That did affright the air at Agincourt 1 O, pardon ! since a crooked figure may...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 554 pages
...fields of France ? or may we cram So great an object. Can this cockpit hold Within this wooden O, 1 the very casques, That did affright the air at Agincourt...ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces 2 work. Suppose, within the girdle of these walls Whose high, upreared and abutting fronts Are now...
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Illustrations of Shakespeare and of Ancient Manners: With Dissertations on ...

Francis Douce - 1839 - 678 pages
...inventive genius. The other explanation by Dr. Johnson seems likewise too refined. Page 264. CHORUS. . . . Can this cock-pit hold The vasty fields of France...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt ? Dr. Johnson has elsewhere remarked that Shakspeare was fully sensible of the absurdity of showing...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 564 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, s the very casques, 4 That did affright the air at Agincourt ? O, pardon ! since a crooked figure may...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 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...
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The Past and Present State of Dramatic Art and Literature

Frederick Guest Tomlins - 1839 - 62 pages
...Southampton's : then may a • Cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ; and they may cram Within their wooden O, the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt ;" Letting " imaginary forces work." Imagination has then drawn her circle round her hearers, and,...
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The Chinese: A General Description of China and Its Inhabitants, Volume 2

Sir John Francis Davis - 1840 - 422 pages
...On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Can this cock-pit hold The vasty field of France, or may we cram, Within this wooden O, the...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt ? О pardon since a crooked figure may Attest, in little space a million ; And let us, cyphers to this...
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved text ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 472 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,2 That did affright the air at Agincourt ? O, pardon ! since a crooked figure...
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