List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter... The soldier of fortune - Page 279by Henry Curling - 1843Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 592 pages
...his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in musick : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, 9 Never came reformation in a flood,] Alluding to the method by which Hercules... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 pages
...the man were made a prelate ; Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say — it hath been all his study ; List his discourse of war, and you...knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that when he speaks The air, a chartered libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's... | |
| Derek Traversi - 1957 - 214 pages
...exaggeration, in the studied phrases with which the Archbishop proceeds to particularize the royal gifts: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's... | |
| Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pages
...been all in all his study; List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rend'red you in music; Turn him to any cause of policy, The...knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's... | |
| 1909 - 1118 pages
...his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in musick ; Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, Familiar aa his garter ; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder... | |
| Philip Edwards - 2004 - 264 pages
...praises above all his skill in reasoning, as Henry shows himself a master of all the arts of discourse: Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would...knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. And the mute wonder lurketh in men's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pages
...Oldcastle, And all-admiring, with an inward wish, You would desire the King were made a prelate. 40 Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would...knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's... | |
| Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger - 1996 - 284 pages
...ideologies, as a basis for a rational spatial theory, is novel. Ideology Determines the Terms of Debate Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks The air, a chartered libertine, is still. —Shakespeare, King Henry V, act 1,... | |
| William Gerber - 1994 - 312 pages
...Archbishop of Canterbury describes the king as follows: (418) Hear him but reason in divinity, And ... The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter. Finally, in my harvesting of relevant passages from Shakespeare, here are Mark Antony's admiring words,... | |
| W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - 1996 - 356 pages
...from modern productions on the grounds that it is just a piece of over-blown and sycophantic praise): List his discourse of war. and you shall hear A fearful...of policy. The Gordian knot of it he will unloose ... (I.I43-6) Henry is a master of different sorts of language - of theology. of politics. of warfare... | |
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