 | 1903 - 666 ページ
...the Prince, when he kills Hotspur, speaks thus :— lll-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. Shakspeare has in ' Uymbeline ' a line with a thought similar to one of Horace, though differently... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 576 ページ
...worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...should not make so dear a show of zeal : — But let my favors1 hide thy mangled face ; And5 even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself For doing these fair rites... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 606 ページ
...kingdom for it was too small a bound ; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.—This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout...should not make so dear a show of zeal:— But let my favors 1 hide thy mangled face; And, even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself For doing these fair rites... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1850 - 144 ページ
...isle against a leaguing world." THOMPSON'S Liberty. " 111 weaVd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough." SHAKSPEARE. The greater part of the world is still in heathen ignorance and superstition, imperfectly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 ページ
...ON Tin DEATH OF HOTSPUR. Brave Percy, fare thee well. Ill weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...of zeal: But let my favours* hide thy mangled face; And even, in thy behalf, I'll thank myself For doing thee these fair rites of tenderness. Adieu, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 744 ページ
...worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weaved ambition, how much art . thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...should not make so dear a show of zeal : — But let my favors hide thy mangled face; And, even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself For doing these fair rites... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 546 ページ
...worms, brave Percy: Fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so great» a show of zeal : — But let my favours'" hide thy mangled face ; And, even in thy behalf,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 548 ページ
...worms, brave Percy: Fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so great* a show of zeal : — But let my favours'1 hide thy mangled face ; And, even in thy behalf, I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 544 ページ
...worms, brave Percy : Fare thee well, great heart ! — Dl-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...earth Is room enough : — This earth, that bears thee clc:id, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make... | |
 | 1851 - 554 ページ
...PASSAGES. In Shakspeare's Henry IV., Act V. Sc. 4., the Prince exclaims, beholding Percy's corpse, — " When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough I " In Ovid we find the following parallel : — " jacet ccce Tibullus, Vix manet e toto parva quod... | |
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When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. 
