Word: wars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...subject was the historical play, Henry V, distinguished among Shakspere's series of historical plays by its atmosphere of peace. Written after the melodramatic Henry VI, King John, Richard II, and others, it represents the highest development of Shakspere's views on war and peace. It was composed in 1599, at the zenith of his creative power, and is his only play of which the date of composition is definitely known...
...duplicity and shrewdness resolve themselves into Henry's upright wisdom, and the father's touch of goodness, which only occasionally showed itself, sees its fullest development in his son's high religious sense, which made him advanced of his age in this respect. Henry's action in making war against France may be defended on the ground of sincerity of motive...
...clubs. It was 37 feet long of lap-streak construction, heavy and low in the water, and the thole pins were sunk in the gunwale. There was no shear, the stem was straight and the men rowed in red cushions; the whole having the appearance of a man-of-war's gig at the present time...
...centuries last night in Sever 11. Selections from the following works were read: Jeremy Taylor's, Sir Thomas Brown's and Lord Bacon's essays concerning friendship; Heywood's, "The Woman Killed with Kindness"; "A Ballad Upon a Wedding," by Sir John Suckling; "To Lucasta on Going to the War," and "Lovelace to Althea from Prison," by Colonel Lovelace; "Sin," by George Herbert; "No Armor Against Fate," by James Shirley; "Shall I, Wasting in Despair," by George Wither...
Professor Ames says: "The war on the part of the British is unjustifiable morally, and a blunder politically...