 O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's...  The Quarterly Review - Page 3561826Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1851
...With good advice, and little medicine. My lord Northumberland will soon be cooled. K. Hen. 0 Heaven ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the...(Weary of solid firmness) melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips ; how chances mock,... | |
 | Norman Rabkin - 1981 - 165 pages
...universal annihilation. Could one "read the book of fate," the moribund King reflects, one would have to see the revolution of the times Make mountains level,...Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea, and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips. (III.i.45-51) What... | |
 | Norman Rabkin - 1981 - 165 pages
...universal annihilation. Could one "read the book of fate," the moribund King reflects, one would have to see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Either/Or: Responding to Henry V Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea, and other times... | |
 | William H. Propp, William Henry Propp, Baruch Halpern, David Noel Freedman - 1990 - 225 pages
...Achronological Narrative and Dual Chronology in Israelite Historiography Baruch Halpern York University O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times. . . . — Henry IV, Part 2 Because of the nature of the historical agenda of eighteenth-century Europe,... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 1992 - 259 pages
...history as an alien process of 'necessity' which human beings can contemplate but not control: O God, that one might read the book of fate, And see the...Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea, and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chance's mocks... | |
 | Yves Charles Zarka - 1992 - 294 pages
...Voici un passage de Shakespeare : Oh God, that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolutions of the times Make mountains level, and the continent,...Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea, and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune 's hips; how chance 's mocks... | |
 | David Haley - 1993 - 314 pages
...of Richard, deposed and calling pitifully for a mirror, to King Henry's fearful meditation: O God, that one might read the book of fate, And see the...Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea. . . . (2H4 III.i.45-56)33 Henry's wish to "see the revolution of the times" is in fact a longing to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 865 pages
...With good advice and little medicine. My lord Northumberland will soon be cooled. KING HENRY IV O God, that one might read the book of fate, And see the...Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea; and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean !0 Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chance's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1263 pages
...With good advice and little medicine: My Lord Northumberland will soon be cool'd. KING HENRY. О God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the...level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melr itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's... | |
 | Noel Annan - 1997 - 265 pages
...information got it wrong. Had I been years older I might have felt as Shakespeare's Henry IV did: O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the...Weary of solid firmness - melt itself Into the sea ... O! if this were seen, The happiest youdi, viewing his progress dirough, What perils past, what... | |
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