 On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...  Littell's Living Age - Page 891850Full view - About this book
 | 1833 - 636 pages
...arena of savage sports. " Can this Cock-pit hold The vasty fields of France, or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt ?" No theatre is indeed without its pit ; in its origin a place for combat. Hence we have the expression... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 430 pages
...imagination of his audience. - " Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O, the very casques That did affright the air...crooked figure may Attest, in little place, a million; And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work : Suppose, within the girdle... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 418 pages
...imagination of his audience. ' Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O, the very casques That did affright the air...crooked figure may Attest, in little place, a million; And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work: Suppose, "within the girdle... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 424 pages
...imagination of his audience. " Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O, the very casques That did affright the air...crooked figure may Attest, in little place, a million; And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work : Suppose, within the girdle... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1834 - 418 pages
...imagination of his audience. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram "Within this wooden O, the very casques That did affright the air...crooked figure may Attest, in little place, a million; And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work : Suppose, within the girdle... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 556 pages
...an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O,1 the very casques, That did affright the air at Agincourt...crooked figure may Attest, in little place, a million ; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces 2 work. Suppose, within the girdle... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1836 - 582 pages
...So great an object. Can tliis cock-pit hold The vasty field of France, or may we cram, Within this wooden O, the very casques That did affright the air...pardon, since a crooked figure may Attest, in little space, a million ; And let us, cyphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work: Suppose... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 702 pages
...So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or, may we cram Within this wooden O, the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt ?"' and requests his audience to piece out the imperfections of the theatre with their thoughts. This... | |
 | 1838 - 406 pages
...flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object :" " O, pardon ! since a crooked figure may Attest, in little place, a million ; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work : " " Piece out our imperfections... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...France ? or may we cram Within this wooden 0, the very casques, That did affright the air at Agincourt 1 arrested at ? Of. One Angelo, a goldsmith ; Do you know him ? Adr. I know ; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work : Suppose, within the girdle... | |
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