 | A. C. Harwood - Literary Criticism - 1964 - 68 pages
...Glendower; they are only united in their hatred of Bolingbroke. * Act V, Scene 5. Glend. 'at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward. Hot. Why, so it would... | |
 | Earthquakes - 1970 - 760 pages
...1000, ext. i (Telepnon Science reconsiders an unexplained phenomenon: GLENDOWER: . . . At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward. HOTSPUR: Why, so it... | |
 | C.R. Kitchin - Science - 1990 - 218 pages
...sight just below the Lion's tail (figure 2. 14). JourneyS Phoenix Rising Glendower: At my nativity, the front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, of burning cressets, and at my birth the frame and huge foundation of the Earth shaked like a coward. Henry IV part 1 W... | |
 | Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...guarantee the success of the rebellion, Glendower informs the others about his horoscope: at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward. (1H IV, III, 1, 11-14)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...in hell, 10 As oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of. GLENDOWER I cannot blame him. At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward. HOTSPUR Why, so it... | |
 | Fred Hoyle - Astrophysicists - 1994 - 502 pages
...towards adventure. Owen Glendower, in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part /, says to Hotspur: ... at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the Earth Shaked like a coward. So it was at my own... | |
 | Elissa R. Henken - Folklore - 1996 - 268 pages
...he does have Glyndwr describe a birth well-marked by wonders of heaven and earth: ... At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward. I say the earth did... | |
 | Elizabeth Gaskell - Fiction - 2001 - 422 pages
...patriotism. He says himself- or Shakespeare says it for him, which is much the same thing 'At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes Of burning cressets .... I can call spirits from the vasty deep.' And few among the lower orders in the principality would... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 564 pages
...moveable frame or cross, carried on poles in processions. — DOUCE (Illust. of Sh., 1807, i, 429): The same as a beacon light, but occasionally portable....rope smeared with pitch and placed in a cage of iron, which was suspended on pivots in a kind of fork. . . . From the French croiset, an earthen pot. —... | |
 | David Baker - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 240 pages
...appears in the trilogy's opening play, Henry IV, Part I. 130 "At my nativity," he informs Hotspur, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward. (3.1.12-16) And there... | |
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I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward. 
