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Nemi 📚🎶Jun 29, 2025

immanity, feral madness, committed betwixt men of the same nation, language, and religion‘.“ #HenryVI

WIST Quotations Has Moved!May 19, 2025

KING HENRY: Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
   To shepherds looking on their silly sheep
   Than doth a rich embroidered canopy
   To kings that fear their subjects’ treachery?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 42ff (3.5.42-45) (1591)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #henryvi #paranoia #concerns #betrayal #fear #poverty #power #simplicity #treachery #treason #wealth #workingclass #worry

WIST Quotations Has Moved!May 12, 2025

A quotation from Shakespeare

KING HENRY: O God! Methinks it were a happy life
To be no better than a homely swain,
To sit upon a hill as I do now,
To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run:
How many makes the hour full complete,
How many hours brings about the day,
How many days will finish up the year,
How many years a mortal man may live.
When this is known, then to divide the times:
So many hours must I tend my flock,
So many hours must I take my rest,
So many hours must I contemplate,
So many hours must I sport myself,
So many days my ewes have been with young,
So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,
So many years ere I shall shear the fleece;
So minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Passed over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this! How sweet, how lovely!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 21ff (3.5.21-41) (1591)

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Raurquiz May 5, 2024

#qepd #bernardhill #rip #actor #theoden #TheLordoftheRings #titanic #truecrime #wolfhall #gandhi #thebounty #amidsummernightsdream #thescorpionking #gothika #wimbledon #paranorman #northvsouth #goldenyears #interludecity #foreveryoung #henryvi #GreatExpectations #sunshine #unforgotten @streammaxla

Medieval Archives Mar 29, 2024

#OTD in 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton: The army of Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret's army to become King Edward IV of England

Queen Margaret raised the Lancastrian army because Henry VI was a prisoner in the Tower of London

Over 50,000 soldiers fought in the Battle of Towton and the casualty rate was high. Estimates vary with over 8,000 killed on the low end to over 20,000 killed on the high side.

#warsoftheroses #kingedwardiv #henryvi #queenmargaret #battle #york

Julie Howlin Dec 6, 2023

Henry VI founded a number of educational institutions which still exist today: Eton College, King's College, Cambridge, and (together with Henry Chichele) All Souls College, Oxford.

10 things you might not know about Henry VI:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2023/12/6-december-henry-vi.html

#BirthAnniversary #HenryVI #KingsAndQueens #History

6 December: Henry VI

English king Henry VI was born on 6 December 1421 at Windsor Castle . 10 things you might not know about him: He was the only son...

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Mother Suspiria

Nov 14, 2023

This is pretty neat and also, A+ on the demon, 18th Century artist Joshua Reynolds.

https://www.wionews.com/trending/uk-horrifying-monster-discovered-in-18th-century-painting-hidden-behind-layers-of-paint-658264

#painting #demon #18thCentury #painter #Shakespeare #HenryVI

An 18th-century painting hid a monster in plain sight. It has now been revealed

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Matteo Nov 1, 2023

#london #londontower #toweroflondon #londra #murder #dark #castel #castello #henryvi #kinghenryvi #england #inghilterra #mistery #ordition #medieval #history

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Stefan Kumpfmüller Apr 7, 2023

The second work from the cycle of abstraction of all of Shakespeare's dramas: Henry VI Part III 841 tiles, 823 text blocks, background colour, colour of the covers of the writing, alignment of the covered text according to the set of rules: [https://www.konzeptkunst-online.de/William_Shakespeares_Plays].
Digitally conceived on 290 cm square, realisation in halving and thirds possible.
You can see the work most beautifully right here:
https://www.konzeptkunst-online.de/William_Shakespeares_Plays#Henry_VI_Part_III
#digitalart #art #conceptualart #literature #henryVI

Konzeptkunst-Online | William Shakespeare's plays

William Shakespeare's plays transformed in to a grafic work of art

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hastingsmothman Dec 6, 2022

I, of course, also share a birthday with King Henry VI, who, like me was weak, inept and quite insane. 😅

#henryvi #shakespeare