The Life of Sir John FalstaffLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 - 196 pagini "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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Pagina 20
... Maître Jean here gave him absolution on the spot - and have scarcely ceased laughing since . Our ultimate destination ! Eh , Jean ? Nous allons tous finir par là ? " " Possible ! " said Jean , shrugging his shoulders . Lady Alice , in ...
... Maître Jean here gave him absolution on the spot - and have scarcely ceased laughing since . Our ultimate destination ! Eh , Jean ? Nous allons tous finir par là ? " " Possible ! " said Jean , shrugging his shoulders . Lady Alice , in ...
Pagina 22
... Jean , en veux - tu ? ” " De quoi ? " " Des coups . " " Toujours . " And Maître Jean put away a set of tablets on which he had been making some notes ; and pulled on a pair of embroidered gloves , over which he was at great pains to ...
... Jean , en veux - tu ? ” " De quoi ? " " Des coups . " " Toujours . " And Maître Jean put away a set of tablets on which he had been making some notes ; and pulled on a pair of embroidered gloves , over which he was at great pains to ...
Pagina 25
... me under my cloak . There , jump down , monkey . " And Maître Jean dropped among the straw of the courtyard a very small boy , clad in leather . His eyes were very far He was a remarkable boy - apparently about eight years of age ...
... me under my cloak . There , jump down , monkey . " And Maître Jean dropped among the straw of the courtyard a very small boy , clad in leather . His eyes were very far He was a remarkable boy - apparently about eight years of age ...
Pagina 27
... Maître Jean leaped from his horse and picked up the treasure , pressed it to his lips , stuck it into a " love knot on the greter end of hys hoode , ” and vaulted again into his saddle with an air of triumph . This was very kind of Maître ...
... Maître Jean leaped from his horse and picked up the treasure , pressed it to his lips , stuck it into a " love knot on the greter end of hys hoode , ” and vaulted again into his saddle with an air of triumph . This was very kind of Maître ...
Pagina 28
... me , too , to tell you of the meeting at Canterbury- where the party rested for the night - between Maître Jean and an English gentleman , his friend , with a peaked beard and falling hood — also a clerk and scholar ; how Sir Thomas ...
... me , too , to tell you of the meeting at Canterbury- where the party rested for the night - between Maître Jean and an English gentleman , his friend , with a peaked beard and falling hood — also a clerk and scholar ; how Sir Thomas ...
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alluded ancient Bardolph battle battle of Shrewsbury believe better Boar's Head Bullcalf Castle character Chief Justice Gascoigne chronicle Colevile court Coventry death doubtless Earl England English fain faithful favour Gadshill gentleman George Cruikshank Gloucestershire hand hanged hath Henry the Fifth Henry the Fourth hero hero's honour horse Jack Falstaff Jack's John of Gaunt John's Julius Cæsar Justice Shallow kind King Henry King's knight Lady Alice live London look Lord Chief Justice Maître Jean Master Robert Shallow Master Shallow Master Silence means merry Mistress monarch never occasion Percy period person Pistol Poins poor pray present Prince of Wales proved Quickly rebels Richard Whittington royal scarcely scene Shakspeare Shrewsbury Sir Gilbert Falstaff Sir John Falstaff Sir Thomas Mowbray Sir William Gascoigne Skogan supposed tavern thee things Thomas Chaucer thou troops Whittington Windsor words write young
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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?