 This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This...  Observations upon the town of Cromer ... as a watering place, and ... its ... - Page 27by Edmund Bartell - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 328 pages
...doth choke the feeder : Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise ; This fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection... | |
 | Friedrich Brinkmann - 1878 - 622 pages
...diesem Wuste von Metaphern die Stelle aus Shakespeare'** Richard II., worin England verherrlicht wird. This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise; This fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection,... | |
 | Friedrich Brinkmann - 1878 - 618 pages
...diesem Wuste von Metaphern die Stelle aus Shakespeare's Richard II., worin England verherrlicht wird. This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-imradise ; This fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection,... | |
 | John Bierhorst - 1985 - 776 pages
...Roughly speaking, it corresponds to the English weak demonstrative "this," as in the Shakespearean "This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars...." And since any adjective, such as "this," is basically a noun in Nahuatl, it may also be... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 1990 - 452 pages
...not the language of metaphorical exuberance, praising the nostalgic beauty of the world in the lines: This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise . . . This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,... | |
 | Marianne Novy - 1993 - 292 pages
...Literally. There was none of that at the Old Vic. Their John of Gaunt came on; now for the big speech: "This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, this earth of Majesty, etc," and he went off. He could have been going to dinner, the effect would have been the same. (qtd.... | |
 | Keith Wilson - 1994 - 276 pages
...for permission to reproduce illustrations: Eurotunnel (plates 1-6); the Press Association (plate 11). This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise; This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection... | |
 | Suhas Chatterjee - 1995 - 236 pages
...village graveyard. 8. RC Majumdar, India and SE Asia, pp.160-71 . 5 POLITICAL LIFE IN THE CHIEFDOM This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection... | |
 | Suhas Chatterjee - 1995 - 236 pages
...a village graveyard. 8. RC Majumdar, India and SE Asia, pp.160-71. 5 POLITICAL LIFE IN THE CHIEFDOM This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection... | |
 | Norman Davies - 1996 - 1428 pages
...conflicts of that earlier age: This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi- paradise This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, RENTES /-NLIOMETRICS — the science of quantitative history-—... | |
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