...without a sou!. I have always admired that speech of Hotspur in the first part of Henry the Fourth.— ' By Heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,...

...start a hare. North. Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the hounds of patience. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,...

...start a. hare. North, Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; (7) The canker-rose is the dog-rose, the flower of the Cynosbaton. STEE(8) For disdainful....

...discrimination. And we cite as another example of the higher flights of scenick delineation : " Mcthinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon." &c. Instances might be multiplied, such as his testy mortification and resentment at the revolt of...

...to all that his father and uncle urge to calm him, and his fine abstracted apostrophe to honour, " By heaven methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honour from the moon," &c. After all, notwithstanding the gallantry, generosity, good temper, and idle freaks of the...

...insensibility to all that his father and uncle urge to calm him, and his fine abstracted apostrophe to honour, "By heaven methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honour from the moon," &c. After all, notwithstanding the gallantry, generosity, good temper, and idle freaks of the...

...start a hare. North. Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line conld never touch the ground,...

...fowl's entrailles" Aoid again, in that passage where Hotspur so emphacally apostrophizes honour, " By Heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,...

...Thebes this would be a reproach, if through fear b Shakfepeare makes Hotspur say, By heaven, nwLhinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon : Or dire into the bottom of the deep, Where fadom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned...

...thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities: But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship!3 i By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the palefac'd moon;] Though I am very far from condemning this speech with Gildon and Theobald, as absolute...