 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 384 pagini
...io3d sonnet ; « a face a face " That overgoes my blunt invention quite.'' Again, in King Henry V, " O, for a Muse of fire, that would ascend " The brightest heaven of invention." Invention is the reading of both the first and second folio. MALONE. 560. —Heaven is in my mouth,']... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 632 pagini
...hostess. Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Masengers, and Attendants. Enter Chorus. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd, On this unworthy scaffold, to bring... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pagini
...SCENE, at the beginning of the Play, lies m England; but afterwards, wholly in France. Enter CHORUS. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash 'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 450 pagini
...against France. The poet wishes for abilities to represent so great an hero: ' Oh for a Muse of fire ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume...hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire, Crouch for employments.' A conqueror drawn like the god of battle, with such a dreadful leash of hell-hounds at... | |
 | 1804 - 450 pagini
...against France. The poet wishes for abilities to represent so great an hero: ' Oh for a Muse of fire ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and at his heels, T.eash'd in, like hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire, Crouch for employments.' A conqueror drawn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pagini
...stubborn spirits They mill and crow as terrible as storms. Skahfeari. 9. To grow upon the view. 0 fur a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven...invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarch* to behold the iieeJling scene. Stahftare. jo. It implies commonly a notion of something wrong.... | |
 | John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pagini
...FIFTH. J. and S. 1735. MA LONE. J. and S. 1793. Vol. vi. Vol. v. Vol. ix. P. 3.— 447.— 263. Chorus. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! " Shakespeare (says Heron) knew nothing of " the allusions pointed out by his commentators. " What... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 498 pagini
...in Second Part of King Henry, Act 3 : " These faults are easy." — — KING HENRY V. CHORUS. 273. " O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend " The brightest heaven of invention," &c. I cannot, with Dr. Warburton, suppose that there is here any reference to the doctrine of the Peripatetics,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 514 pagini
...'IliM HCI',NK, at the Beginning of ike Play, liet ; hut afterward* icholly in France. Enter CHORUS. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! l A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold2 the swelling scene! Then should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 506 pagini
...SCENE, at the Beginning of the Play, lies in England; but afterwards wholly in France. Enter CHORUS. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! l A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold1 the swelling scene! Then should... | |
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O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd... 
