 | Jack Kelly - 2009 - 274 pàgines
...Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier. EVEN AS IT was roiling attitudes and upsetting conventions, gunpowder was delighting crowds of eager... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2005 - 396 pàgines
...wax olde, And Goats milke sod with wine nourisheth moysture radicall. " The certain lord's claim that but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier (1.3.62-3) also invites comment, since guns were not, in fact, used at Homildon. That was because early... | |
 | Charles Edelman - 2004 - 452 pàgines
...Hotspur later tells of his infuriating battlefield encounter with the English lord who told him . . . but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier, (1.3.63-4) it is clear that Shakespeare took Holinshed's 'shot' to mean gunpowder artillery, an unhistorical... | |
 | T. R. Henn - 2005 - 176 pàgines
...Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier. l Henry IV. 1.3.59 We vainly accuse the fury of guns, and the new inventions of death. SIR THOMAS BROWNE,... | |
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Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns. He would himself have been a soldier. 
