O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd... Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other Essays - Seite 20von Sir Sidney Lee - 1906 - 251 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Jill Line - 2006 - 196 Seiten
...but also from the divine ray that circles through creation, descending from and ascending to the One: O for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention . . . This is imagination at its highest level, but in A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare shows... | |
| Barbara Ardinger - 2006 - 398 Seiten
...Comedy is Beatrice, a girl he saw one time at church. Shakespeare opens Henry V with this invocation: "O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend/ The brightest heaven of invention!" In 1928, Stephen Vincent Benet called for an American Muse "whose strong and diverse heart/ So many... | |
| Grace Tiffany - 2006 - 236 Seiten
...play takes pains to accentuate the difference between him and the actor playing him. The play begins, O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars. . . . (Pro., 1-6, my emphasis)... | |
| Alex Vardamis - 2006 - 336 Seiten
...divide. This is mostly a true book, with some exaggeration, as I said before. CHAPTER ONE - RESTLESS v_xj for a muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention! Think, when I talk of dogs, that you see them, printing their proud paws in the receiving earth. When... | |
| Eugene G. Schwartz - 2006 - 1251 Seiten
...committed to the radical The epigram with Joseph P. Lash's photo in the CCNY1931 yearbook reads,"... a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention!" program of change which united liberals, socialists, and communists in the popular front. But with... | |
| Robert A. Logan - 2007 - 276 Seiten
...demonstration of the high astounding terms needed to give epic grandeur to the serious scenes of Henry V: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...himself. Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels, Leashed in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,... | |
| Masolino D'Amico - 2007 - 255 Seiten
...quod contemplamur repraesentans, veluti templum, aut mons... SANT'iGNAzio, Exercitia Spiritualia 0 for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...the warlike Harry, like himself , Assume the port of Mais, and at his heels, Leashed in like hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire, Crouch for employment.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2007 - 1288 Seiten
...England; afterwards France. PROLOGUE. Enter CHORUS. CHORUS. FOR a Muse of fire, that would ascend VX are Leasht-in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,... | |
| Timothy Rosendale - 2007 - 18 Seiten
...text into something that is real and powerful both despite and precisely because of its fictivity. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring... | |
| Lou Ureneck - 2007 - 320 Seiten
...poem. I loved her high-pitch recitations of the opening of Henry V over blueberry pancakes and hash: "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" Elizabeth had just graduated from New York University and now was throwing herself into the hard work... | |
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