...Cœsar not unnaturally desired the stage and literature to embody some of the incidents ' That bore a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working,...and woe; Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow.' (Prologue to Henry VIII.) But, although the wish was general and not unreasonable, the subjects vf...

...Dumb-shows ; Women attending upon the Queen ; Scribes. Officers. Guards, and other Attendants. PROLOGUE. I COME no more to make you laugh : things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working/1' fidl of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those...

...London; Westminster ; Kimbolton. THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF KING HENRY VIII. THE PROLOGUE. I COME no more to make you laugh : things now, That...to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here 5 May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; The subject will deserve it. Such as give Their money...

...brilliancy of his wit and the genuineness of his humour, turn to other and loftier themes : — " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now, That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow We now present." * But the influence of time in the formation and direction of the poetical power must also be taken...

...had gathered on the fuller-ripened life-fruit. What says the prologue to King Henry VIII. ?— 1 1 come no more to make you laugh; things now That bear...serious brow, Sad, high and working, full of state aod woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present.' It is impossible to commune with...

...other Attendants. Spirits. SCENE — Chiefly in London and Westminster ; once at Kimlwltvn. PROLOGUE. I COME no more to make you laugh : things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working,1 J) full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those...

...Attendants. Spirits. SCENE — Clilrjiij in London and Westminster; once at Kimbolion. PROLOGUE. I COME no more to make you laugh : things now, That bear a weighty and a, serious brow, Sad, high, and working,(1) full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those...

...remarkable Prologue of the few which are attached to Shakspere's plays. It thus commences : — " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now, That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present." It is, to our minds, a perfect exposition of the principle upon which the poet worked in the construction...

...Attendants. Spirits. SCENE — Chiefly in London and Westminster; once at Kimbolton. PROLOGUE. I COMB no more to make you laugh: things now, That bear a...Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such iioble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here May, if they think...

...the capture at Harper's Ferry of Captain John Brown and his associates. See Note VII. (153) * » " Things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow,...scenes as draw the eye to flow, "We now present." Let us keep before us tne great fact — the violent enslavement of forty hundreds of thousands of...