 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1899 - 792 pages
...date than Henry IV, the Prologue evidently refers to this unlucky misrepresentation of its hero : 1 It is no pampered glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin, But one whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr, and a virtuous peer,' &c. This view... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 544 pages
...his Martyrdom. Only the First Part is extant. The Prologue makes its animus sufficiently clear — It is no pampered glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin, But one whose virtue shone above the rest. There are faint and somewhat dubious traces of other... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1901 - 606 pages
...reference is made to the degradation the Lollard martyr had suffered at the hands of the dramatist : — " It is no pampered glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin, But one whose virtue shone above the rest. . . . . Let fair truth be graced, Since forged invention... | |
 | William Hepworth Dixon - Great Britain - 1901 - 554 pages
...against the wrong which had been done to Oldcastle on the stage by Shakespeare. The prologue said : — " It is no pampered glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin ; But one whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr and a virtuous peer." These lines... | |
 | Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - Dissertations, Academic - 1903 - 300 pages
...resented in these words : It is no pampered glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin, But one whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr, and a virtuous peer. Shakspere saw his blunder. He changed the name of his character to Sir John Falstaff, and in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 236 pages
...an antidote to Shakespeare's Henry /Fmay be judged from the following verses of the Prologue: — " It is no pampered glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin, But one whose virtue shone above the rest". Traces of the earlier name of Falstaff are to be found... | |
 | Emil Koeppel - 1905 - 230 pages
...mit den scharfen worten : It is no pamper'd glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin, But one, whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr, and a virtuous peer — , so haben sie doch kein bedenken getragen, eine gewisse verbindung zwischen ihrem stück... | |
 | English philology - 1905 - 1000 pages
...Stück durchzusehen. It is no pamper'd glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor of youthful sin Bat one whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr, and a virtous peer. So durchschlagend war also der Erfolg von Shakesp.s fettem Elfter gewesen, daß, wer... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1905 - 258 pages
...Mr. Wyndham says, was written 'specifically in reply to Shakespeare's abuse of Oldcastle's name ' : It is no pampered glutton we present, Nor aged Counsellor to youthful sin ; But one, whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr and a virtuous Peer. . . . Let fair... | |
 | 1907 - 320 pages
...to h1m, writes another play, in which he now becomes the hero, and we are told in the prologue — " It is no pampered glutton we present Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin But one whose virtue shone above the rest A valiant martyr and a virtuous peer, In whose true faith... | |
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It is no pamper'd glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin But one, whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr, and a virtuous peer... 
