 | Barrett Wendell - 1894 - 460 pages
...instance, has no lines which touch one like Edward's speech amid the squalid horrors of his dungeon : — " Tell Isabel the queen, I look'd not thus, When for...France, And there unhors'd the Duke of Cleremont." The entire death-scene of Edward is finer than that of Richard. As a whole, however, Edward II., while... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1894 - 458 pages
...instance, has no lines which touch one like Edward's speech amid the squalid horrors of his dungeon : — " Tell Isabel the queen, I look'd not thus, When for...France, And there unhors'd the Duke of Cleremont." The entire death-scene of Edward is finer than that of Richard. As a whole, however, Edward II., while... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 226 pages
...and sleeplessness, sending that last message to his queen — • " Tell Isabel the queen I looked not thus, When for her sake I ran at tilt in France, And there unhors'd the Duke of Cleremont". In a word, while Marlowe seeks intrinsically powerful situations and brings out their power by bold... | |
 | George Rylands - Diction - 1928 - 268 pages
...cannot alter my complexion, For I shall ne'er look pale, and Edward II.: Tell Isabel the queen I looked not thus, When for her sake I ran at tilt in France And there unhorsed the Duke of Claremont, the scales are evenly balanced. Both passages demand the voice and... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 248 pages
...may still better be proved from the cry of Marlowe's dying king : — Tell Isabel the Queen I looked not thus When for her sake I ran at tilt in France, And there unhorsed the Duke of Clerimont. Doubtless Coleridge was right in some other parts of his contention.... | |
 | Malcolm Miles Kelsall - Social Science - 1981 - 216 pages
...his noblest moment thereafter is one in which he recalls his former splendour as knight and lover: Tell Isabel, the queen, I look'd not thus, When for...France, And there unhors'd the duke of Cleremont. (Vv 67-69) This is merely to escape from the present into a dream of the past. But to what else can... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 1979 - 288 pages
...dropped out from every vein As doth this water from my tattered robes! Tell Isabel the queen I looked not thus When for her sake I ran at tilt in France And there unhorsed the Duke of Cleremont. (Vv55-69) His emphasis to the end is that he is a king in spite of... | |
 | Diana E. Henderson - History - 1995 - 304 pages
...courtier youth, itself based upon illusion and artistic masking: "Tell Isabel, the queen, I looked not thus, / When for her sake I ran at tilt in France / And there unhorsed the Duke of Cleremont" (in Ribner 5.5.67-69). Here the personation of an actor combines with... | |
 | Millar MacLure - English drama - 1995 - 219 pages
...dungeon, he gathers his breath for one last kingly utterance: — Tell Isabel, the queen, I looked not thus When for her sake I ran at tilt in France, And there unhorsed the Duke of Cleremont. What heart-breaking pathos in those lines! For a moment, as his thoughts... | |
 | Brian B. Ritchie - Drama - 1999 - 362 pages
...dropped out from every vein, As doth this water from my tattered robes. Tell Isabel, the queen, I looked not thus When for her sake I ran at tilt in France And there unhorsed the Duke of Cleremont. (5. 5. 58) There is a metrical regularity in this which clearly marks... | |
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Tell Isabel the queen, I look'd not thus, When for her sake I ran at tilt in France, And there unhorsed the duke of Cleremont. 
