 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pages
...propriety of adhering to the text of every old edition, and of rejecting that of nearly every modern one. Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With...conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah ! would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death. Enter King RICHARD,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pages
...siege Of watery Neptune, is now hound in with shame, With inky hlots, and rotten parchment honds : That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath...with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death ! Enter KINO RICHARD and QUEEN; AUMERLE, BUSHY, GREEN, BAOOT, Ross, and WILLOUOНRV. York. The King... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 508 pages
...pronouncing it , Like to a tenement, or pelting farm. England , bound in with the triumphant sea , Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of...parchment bonds : That England , that was wont to conqu er others , Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah ! would the scandal vanish with my life... | |
 | J. Douglas Kneale - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 250 pages
...Against infection and the hand of war ... (2.1.42-4) Continuing the military metaphor, Gaunt laments that "England, that was wont to conquer others / Hath made a shameful conquest of itself" (2.1.65-6). These lines from Shakespeare arguably stand behind Wordsworth's text in their collocation... | |
 | Martin Coyle - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...nations, is now bound together by economic contracts: England, bound in with the triumphant sea ... is now bound in with shame With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. (II.i.61-4) Gaunt's elegy is no panegyric of absolutism: it is a lament for the dissolution of a society... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 270 pages
...RICHARD JOHN OF GAUNT KING RICHARD JOHN OF GAUNT KING RICHARD JOHN OF GAUNT KING RICHARD JOHN OF GAUNT With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. That England...conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death! Enter KING, QUEEN,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 164 pages
...Against thy seat. Both young and old rebel, And all goes worse than I have power to tell. (III.2. 112-20) England that was wont to conquer others / Hath made a shameful conquest of itself" (II. 1.65-66). In the rift between Aumerle and York, this is just what we see (V.2). If the Duchess... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...triunphant sea, / Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege / Of wat'ry Neptune, is now bonnd in with shame, /With inky blots and rotten parchment...others, / Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. [II. i. 31-66] asociar con el Edén. Hay también la profecía irónica -de cruzadas reales "al servicio... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 686 pages
...king but landlord now become."] Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with f hame, 65 With Inky blottes, and rotten Parchment bonds. That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a fhamefull conqueft of it felfe. Ah! would the fcandall vanifh with my life, How happy then were my... | |
 | Graham Holderness - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 232 pages
...subject in a feudal polity - with economic contracts: England, bound in with the triumphant sea ... ... is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds (Hi63-4) Richard is now a mere 'landlord' of England, rather than a king; he has sought to dispense... | |
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This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious... 
