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" O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height! "
The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 39
by William Shakespeare - 1803
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King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...firing ordnance was fixed. 5 ' Chambers,' small pieces of ordnance. See King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 3. Then imitate the action of the tiger ; Stiffen the...o'erwhelm it, As fearfully, as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty2 his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth, and stretch...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1-2 ...

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 558 pages
...match ; but it was, strictly speaking, the staff to which the match for firing ordnance was fixed. Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the...terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head1, Like the brass cannon : let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully, as doth a galled rock O'erhang...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 602 pages
...hard-favour'd rage : •i linstock — ] The staff to which the match is fixed when ordnance is fired. Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through...o'erwhelm it, As fearfully, as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty5 his confounded base,6 Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth, and stretch...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...the tiger ; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage j Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through...o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...the tiger: Stiffen' the sinews, — summon up the blood, — Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage: Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it...o'erwhelm it, As fearfully, as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth, and stretch...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 540 pages
...and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, * Then imitate the action of the tiger ;c Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise...let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully, as doth a galled4 rock O'erhang and jutty' his confounded base/ Swill'd* with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...English dead ! (4) The staff which holds the match used in firing cannon. (5) Small pieces of ordnance. In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest...of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow overwhelm it, As fearfully, as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty1 his confounded1 base, Swill'd...
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A Grammar of Elocution

Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...tiger, • Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-fa vour'djage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through...o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock, O'erhang and jutty his confounded base Swill'd with the wide and wasteful ocean.- —Shakspeare. III. On the...
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: Essays: On self-love. On the ...

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tyger ; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise...o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean." This advice (sensible as...
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 488 pages
...and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tyger ; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise...o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd w'th the wild and wasteful ocean." This advice (sensible as...
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