 | Clarence Valentine Boyer - Literary Criticism - 1914 - 284 pages
...levelled, and at last have learn'd That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution honor's fairest aim. What glory is there in a common good,...achieve ? That like I best that flies beyond my reach. Let me to scale the high pyramids. And thereon set the diadem of France ; I'll either rend it with... | |
 | Arnold Wynne - English drama - 1914 - 292 pages
...never-dying flames Which cannot be extinguished but by blood. Oft have I levelled, and at last have learned That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution...What glory is there in a common good, That hangs for eveiy peasant to achieve ? That like I best, that flies beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high Pyramides,... | |
 | Sanders - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 404 pages
...aspiring wings, Although my downfall be the deepest hell. ii. 43 He is the villain-hero for whom ' peril is the chiefest way to happiness,/ And resolution honour's fairest aim ' (ii. 3 8) . Like Barabas and Mortimer he is an exponent of Realpolitik, and a Machiavellian : The... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 246 pages
...never-dying flames Which cannot be extinguished but by blood. Oft have I levell'd, and at last have learn'd That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution...for every peasant to achieve? That like I best, that flics beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high Pyramides, And thereon set the diadem of France; I'll... | |
 | James Shapiro - English drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...And rank me with the barbarous multitudes, (2.9.31-33) to the Guise's claim in The Massacre at Paris: What glory is there in a common good, That hangs for every peasant to achieve? (1.2.40-41) Indeed, the competition of the lovers in the casket scenes at Belmont is hard to disentangle... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - History - 2000 - 440 pages
...leveled,9 and at last have learned, That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution honors fairest aim. What glory is there in a common good...that flies beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high Pyramids, 8. 1 will test and reward. 9. Believed, suspected. And thereon set the diadem of France:... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 2000 - 564 pages
...never-dying flames Which cannot be extinguished but by blood. Oft have I levell'd, and at last have learn'd That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution...common good, That hangs for every peasant to achieve? 40 That like I best, that flies beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high Pyramides, And thereon set... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...with the barbarous multitudes. (n, ix, 31-3) is even more distinctively descended from the Guise's What glory is there in a common good, That hangs for every peasant to achieve? (Massacre at Paris, ii, 40-1) These two figures, then, the heroes of scenes which are nowadays amongst... | |
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That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution honour's fairest aim. What glory is there in a common good, That hangs for every peasant to achieve? That like I best that flies beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high Pyramides... 
