English: Joan of Arc
Identifier: stratfordgallery00palm (find matches)
Title: The Stratford gallery;
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Palmer, Henrietta L. (Henrietta Lee), b. 1834
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Women in literature
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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of Gods handy-work—That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls! :;; * * * =:t for thine. Q. 3Iar. Bear with me ; I am hungry for revenge,And now I cloy me with beholding it.Thy Edward he is dead, that killed ray Edward ;Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward; Young York he is but boot, because both theyMatch not the high perfection of my loss.Thy Clarence he is dead, that stabbed my Edward ,And the beholders of this tragic play,The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Yaughan, Grey,Untimely smothered in their dusky graves.Richard yet lives, hells black intelligencer—Only reserved their factor, to buy souls,And send them thither. But at hand, at hand,Ensues his piteous and unpitied end :Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray,To have him suddenly eonveyM from hence ; —Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray,That I may live to say the dog is dead !
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JOAN OF ARC. It is a cruel trial for ones cherished romance to be compelled to turn from the spotless enthusiast, the gentle martyr of history,who has made this name famous, to the poor counterfeit and impostor who appears as the heroine of the first part of KingHenry VI. The La Pucelle of Shakspeare is painted with the bitterest English prejudice, as half witch, half charlatan—a coarse, fighting, blood-thirsty Amazon, who, when made prisoner, con-descends to an ignominious subterfuge to escape the death-sentence. She is introduced to the prince-dauphin, during the desperate straits of the siege of Orleans, by the Bastard of Orleans, who addresses his royal master in these words : Me thmks your looks are sad, your cheer appalld; Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence ?Be not dismayed, for succor is at hand :A holy maid hither with me I bring,Which, by a vision sent to her from heaven,Ordained is to raise this tedious siege,And drive the English forth the bounds of France.The spirit
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