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Sir John in allusion thereto calls Bardolph "The Knight of the Burning Lamp."
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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a _mountain foreigner_; that is, a fellow uneducated, and of gross behaviour; and again in his anger calls Bardolph, _Hungarian wight_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Yet he lived to be known by the name of "Bardolph," -- to have every fine expression lost in traces of drunkenness.
Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire Mary Robinson 1779
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How did he know Dogberry and Pistol, Bardolph and Doll
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I sped by the hanging of Bardolph -- they knew he hung: his feet are in the frame when the herald arrives -- but as a teacher and parent, I determined that my students did not need to dwell on this particularly vivid depiction of hanging.
Archive 2007-11-01 M-mv 2007
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I sped by the hanging of Bardolph -- they knew he hung: his feet are in the frame when the herald arrives -- but as a teacher and parent, I determined that my students did not need to dwell on this particularly vivid depiction of hanging.
"I was not angry since I came to France / Until this instant...." M-mv 2007
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Then the treason scene and hanging Bardolph scene, which Branagh shows, but Olivier doesn't and who could blame him in 1944!
Archive 2007-11-01 Bardiac 2007
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One is Falstaff, another Prince Henry, another Bardolph, and so on.
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Bardolph, who has robbed a church, and Nym, who has taken a purse, go to their usual haunts, and smoke their pipes with their companions.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid: yourself and I will not be there; and when they have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from my shoulders.
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