 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 : — this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.  The Plays of Shakspeare - Seite 147von William Shakespeare - 1897Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 Seiten
...dust, And food for [Dies. P. Hen. For worms, brave Pe-cy : Fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weav'd Wi hound; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough : — This earth, that bears thee Bears... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 710 Seiten
...And food for [Dies. P. HEN RY. For worms, brave Percy : Fare thee well, great heart ! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this...earth Is room enough: — This earth, that bears thee Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so dear... | |
 | Juvenal - 1857 - 502 Seiten
...allusion to it is in Shakespeare's Henry IV. P. i. Act v. Sc. 4: " Fare thee well, great heart ! IlUweaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough." 174. Velificatlii Athos,~\ To avoid the catastrophe that happened to Mardonius, whose fleet was wrecked... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 596 Seiten
...worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk!21 When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...small a bound; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Ь room enough : — This earth that bears theo doad , 22 Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If... | |
 | Derek Traversi - 1957 - 214 Seiten
...enemy's 'mangled face' with 'rites of tenderness,' we feel a weight correspondingly laid on vanity : When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. (v. iv) Beneath the formal quality of this 'epitaph,' giving personal content to the conventional gesture,... | |
 | Harold C. Goddard - 2009 - 410 Seiten
...dust. And the Prince, gazing down at his dead victim, sees it too, if only for a moment. Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this...a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound, he exclaims, and, turning, he catches sight of another body from which life has also apparently departed:... | |
 | 1865 - 600 Seiten
...an idea reproduced a hundredfold, and notably by Shakespeare — ' I fenry IV.'— (Act v. Sc. 4.) ' When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.' probably in imitation of the lines of Ovid (Mctam. xii. 615, &c.).* With the 98th Epigram of Leonidas... | |
 | Amlin Gray - 1981 - 44 Seiten
...thou hast robbed me of my youth. (He dies.) HAL. Adieu, brave Hotspur. Fare thee well, great heart. When that this body did contain a spirit A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. I'll cover up thy face. (He lays a cloak or handkerchief over Hotspur's face and starts out. Sees Falstaff.)... | |
 | James C. Bulman - 1985 - 276 Seiten
...over Hotspur's corpse that fixes his tragedy firmly in the outmoded de casibus tradition: Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. (5.4.88-92) consciousness that, in its theatrical flexibility, transcends the monolithic heroic ethos.... | |
 | Orson Welles - 1988 - 356 Seiten
...Content. This chair shall be my state" (11.iv.415). Hal summarizes the effect, after Hotspur is dead, with When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound. (V.iv.89-90) The stillness when he says this, at the close of the battle, is the moment when his royalty... | |
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