 | Gerald Massey - 1866 - 624 pagini
...had gathered on the fuller-ripened life-fruit. What says the prologue to King Henry VIII. ?— 1 1 come no more to make you laugh; things now That bear...serious brow, Sad, high and working, full of state aod woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present.' It is impossible to commune with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 614 pagini
...Guards, and other Attendants. Spirits. SCENE — Clilrjiij in London and Westminster; once at Kimbolion. PROLOGUE. I COME no more to make you laugh : things...bear a weighty and a, serious brow, Sad, high, and working,(1) full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 612 pagini
...Guards, and other Attendants. Spirits. SCENE — Chiefly in London and Westminster ; once at Kimlwltvn. PROLOGUE. I COME no more to make you laugh : things...bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working,1 J) full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pagini
...most remarkable Prologue of the few which are attached to Shakspere's plays. It thus commences : — " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now, That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present." Tt is, to our minds, a perfect exposition of the principle upon which the poet worked in the construction... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 496 pagini
...Attendants. Spirits. SCENE — Chiefly in London and Westminster; once at Kimbolton. PROLOGUE. I COMB no more to make you laugh: things now, That bear a...Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such iioble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here May, if they think... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - 1869 - 680 pagini
...the capture at Harper's Ferry of Captain John Brown and his associates. See Note VII. (153) * » " Things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow,...scenes as draw the eye to flow, "We now present." Let us keep before us tne great fact — the violent enslavement of forty hundreds of thousands of... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - 1869 - 714 pagini
...occasion of the capture at Harper's Ferry of Captain John Brown and his associates. See Note VII. " Things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow,...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present." Let us keep before us the great fact — the violent enslavement of forty hundreds of thousands of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 740 pagini
...burning of the theatre, the play performol a expressly stated to have been called " HBNBY THE EIGHTH." I come no more to make you laugh : — things now...scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those thai can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear : The subject will deserve it. Such... | |
 | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1871 - 234 pagini
...me, With all thy minarets and towers, And sculptured marbles fair to see." Henry Glassford Bell. " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now, That...well, let fall a tear ; The subject will deserve it." Prologue to King Henry the Eighth. IF you want to walk through dirty streets with narrow pavements,... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1872 - 830 pagini
...more fitting preface than a few lines taken from Shakespear's prologue to his drama of Henry VIII. " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now That...well, let fall a tear ; The subject will deserve it .... Think, ye see The very persons of our noble story, As they were living : think you see them great,... | |
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I COME no more to make you laugh ; things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow. Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. 
