10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CROWNET»
Discover the use of
crownet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
crownet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Reading the Unseen: (offstage) Hamlet
the logic by which “crownet weeds” becomes “weedy trophies” is puzzling,
particularly in light of the fact that each pair in the chiasmus—the round “crownet,”
a noun used here as an adjective modifying “weeds,” which become an adjective
...
2
Shakspeare's Himself Again: Or, The Language of the Poet ...
Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home ; Whose bosom was my
crownet, my chief end, — — — vus my crownet, my chief end. ] Dr. Johnson
supposes that crownet means last purpose, probably from Jinit coronal opus.
3
The Shakspearean Miscellany: Containing a Collection of ...
John of Eltham, brother to King Edward the third, Earl of Cornwall, lies buried in
Saint Edmund's Chappel at Weftminfter, with a Crownet on his head, the form
whereof indeed is* Fleury, or as at this day, a Duke's is with us. But he died almoft
...
Francis Godolphin Waldron, 1802
4
Coriolanus. Antony and Cleopatra
Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home; Whose bosom was my
crownet, my chief end,9 Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, \ Spannel for
spaniel is yet theinaceurate pronunciation of some persons, above the vulgar in ...
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, 1809
5
A Help to English History: Containing a Succession of All ...
This croWnet, or Cirru/us duren: (as it is called in the charters of creation; and the
cap of honour, Icannot doubt, but was always in use with the crownet), is much
more antient, as their honorary ornament, than the express memory of it is in the ...
Peter Heylyn, Paul Wright, 1786
There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds 170 Clambering to hang, an
envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the
weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide And mermaid-like awhile they bore her
up, ...
William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor, 2006
7
The Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra
Whofe eye beck'd forth my Wars,& caPd them home : 31 Whofe Bofome was my
Crownet, my chiefe end, Like a right Gypfie, hath at faft and loofe Beguil'd me, to
the very heart of loffe. What Eros , Eros ? 25 Enter Cleopatra. Ah, thou Spell !
William Shakespeare, 2001
8
The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere,: with the notes ...
365. was my crownet, my chief end, ] Dr. Johnson supposes that crownet means
last purpose, probably from finis coronat opus. Chapman, in his translation of the
second book of Homer, uses crown in the sense which my learned coadjutor ...
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, 1788
9
Shakspeare's himself again; or the language of the poet asserted
Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home ; Whose bosom was my
crownet, my chief end.,— — — was my ciownet, my chief end, ] Dr. Johnson
supposes that crownet means last purpose, probably from finis corortat opus.
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with ...
Betray 'd I arar.v O this salse soul os Egypt ! this grave charm,5 — Whose eye
beck'd sorth my wars, and call'd them home ; Whose bosom was my crownet, my
chies end,* Like a right gipsy, hath, at sast and loose, Beguil'd me 7 to the very ...
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, 1793
