 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - Počet stránok 478
...me upon the waters ; Allaying both their fury, and my passion, With its sweet air. 1 — i. 2. 128 O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention. 20 — i. Chorus. 129 Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourish'd : The fire i' the... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1840 - Počet stránok 808
...have many Shadows to fill up the Musterbook.] " 13. After O, an expression of Desire ; As — " 0 / FOR a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention." [ie O ! I wish FOR a Muse of fire, &c. ie A Muse of fire being the Cause of my wishing.] " 14. In account... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1840 - Počet stránok 806
...have many Shadows to fill up the Musterbook.] "13. After O, an expression of Desire ; As— " 0 ! FOB a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention." [ie O ! I wish FOR a Muse of fire, &c. ie A Muse of fire being the Cause of my wishing.] "14. In account... | |
 | Morris Eaves - 2003 - Počet stránok 332
...done it! Hear it not, Heaven, thy Ministers have done it! The echo of the famous opening of Henry V ("O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention . . .") amplifies the indictment: the allusion to Shakespeare's subject (its era located between Blake's... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 2003 - Počet stránok 334
...suggested by the direct echo in "heaven of invention" of the chorus at the outset of Shakespeare's Henry V ("O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend/ The brightest heaven of invention!"). If he could bring about the liberation of these thoughts, could he then perhaps assure his place as... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - 2003 - Počet stránok 280
...mountain fire | [which] May rise distinguish'd o'er the din of war' (L1), recalls Shakespeare's Henry V: 'O for a muse of fire, that would ascend | The brightest heaven of invention' (Prologue, 1-2).52 If Scott seeks to associate his poem with a play popular at the time and seen as... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - 2004 - Počet stránok 248
...William Shakespeare's (1564—1616) King Henry V yearns for reality to replace the stage's shadow-play: O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! This is 'a muse of fire' because fire, the lightest of the elements, is associated with poets whose... | |
 | Amy E. Spaulding - 2004 - Počet stránok 194
...in our technology-drunk time. Guess what? Shakespeare "got it." Listen to the prologue of Henry V: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! . . . But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold... | |
 | Robert Cross - 2004 - Počet stránok 258
...stage / Super Etendard jets to fly" (CP, I: 166). This is a parody of the opening lines of Henry V: "O for a muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest...act, / And monarchs to behold the swelling scene" (Prologue, 1-4). The satire also rests upon parallels in the plots of the two plays. The sophistry... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - Počet stránok 596
...casting Zobeide and " the prince " into the sea (See ZOBEIDE). Dogs of War, Famine, Sword, and Fire. Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume...the port of Mars ; and at his heels, Leashed in like hounds,should Famine, Sword, and Fire Crouch for employment. Shakespeare, King Henry V. 1 chorus (1599).... | |
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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... 
