 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 462 sidor
...Pageant to be his first mature Tragedy. Perhaps he could have said as Fletcher did in the Prologue, I come no more to make you laugh : things now That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. THE TRAGEDIES OHAKESPEARE lived in passionate times, and they grew Odarker as he came to maturity.... | |
 | 1925 - 702 sidor
...function is more that of preface and after-word than that of interpretation. The Prologue starts thus: I come no more to make you laugh: things now, That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Having defined several categories of plays and having classified his own, the poet concludes, after... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 sidor
...Scribes, Officers, Guards, etc. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth THE PROLOGUE I come no more to make you laugh : things now, That...and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, 4 We now present. Those that can pity here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; The subject... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 sidor
...Scribes, Officers, Guards, etc. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth THE PROLOGUE I come no more to make you laugh: things now, That...and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, 4 We now present. Those that can pity here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; The subj ect... | |
 | William Henry Hadow - 1928 - 394 sidor
...Henry flll. The prologue announces a subject which is of the very essence of Aristotle's definition : I come no more to make you laugh; things now That...woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow We here present. Yet the play has room for the typically Shakespearian scene of the crowd and the testy... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1858 - 600 sidor
...itself. Harry of Lancaster's banishment and return, afterwards chronicled by Shakspeare in scenes " Sad, high, and working full of state and woe Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow." A king discrowned and swiftly or lingeringly murdered, and the seeds sown of the great barons' war,... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1866 - 556 sidor
...one who lived between both comedy and tragedy like Garrick; are succeeded by men " Wearing a lofty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working full of state and woe," VOL. XXV. NO. L. BB like Sir Septimus Robinson, Usher of the Black Rod, whose sittings are " always... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1902 - 236 sidor
...follows. That a play so essentially grave and so full of tragedy, " of things,'' as the Prologue puts it, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working. should find its climax in such a scene of festivity and jollification as the christening scene —... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1995 - 424 sidor
...no violent action, no on-stage deaths, and little comedy; indeed, the Prologue's opening words are I come no more to make you laugh. Things now That...serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woeSuch noble scenes as draw the eye to flow We now present. Emphasizing that the play will present... | |
 | Eugene M. Waith - 1988 - 324 sidor
...of exemplary history, the most heroic kind, the prologue emphasizes its concern with noble behavior: Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow. We now...well, let fall a tear: The subject will deserve it. (11. 4-7) The same might be said of many an Arthurian romance or of The Two Noble Kinsmen. Some of... | |
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I COME no more to make you laugh ; things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow. Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. 
