 On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object : Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O. the very casques, That did affright the air at Agincourt > O, pardon ! since a crooked figure may Attest,...  The Plays of William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare - 1803Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 164 pages
...gentles all, The flat unraised spirits1 that hath dared, On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth 10 So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty...since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million;2 And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,3 On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within... | |
 | Robert Weimann - 2000 - 324 pages
...underline both the depth and the use of this disparity. An apology is offered for The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? (9-14) Since the "imperfections" (23) of this "unworthy scaffold" are being emphasized in terms of... | |
 | John Julius Norwich - 2001 - 438 pages
...these is given in the opening lines: But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? There had been no apologies of this kind before the representation of the battle of Shrewsbury; and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 272 pages
...should famine, sword, and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring...may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls... | |
 | Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 pages
...But pardon, gentles all, The flat unrais'd spirits that hath dared 176 Orson Welles on Shakespeare On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great...may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls... | |
 | David Hirson - 2001 - 148 pages
...pardon, gentles all ..." MAURICE. "But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?" (Wilha "hmm?"lothelefianda "Ivnm?" to the right, MAURICE lauglis and spreads his hands wide to the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 pages
...ocean: the English Channel, which is particularly treacherous for shipping. 23 Piece out: augment. 10 On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? 15 Oh, pardon: since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to... | |
 | Terence Hawkes - 2002 - 180 pages
...audience's 'double consciousness'5: . . . pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great...may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work. [...] Piece out our imperfections with... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 1958 - 336 pages
...sword, and Are Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? (i. Chorus) Twice only throughout his work Shakespeare apologizes for the insufficiency of his art:... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2003 - 332 pages
...absence, representation and presentation. Pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt! (Craik, Henry V, p. 120). At one level a mere technical apology for the limitations of the contemporary... | |
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