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  • Harman's confidence in the prowess of the trained Afghan security forces to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda is reminiscent of Glendower's boast in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 that he could call spirits from the vasty deep.

    Bruce Fein: Congresswoman Harman's Afghan Delusions Bruce Fein 2010

  • Harman's confidence in the prowess of the trained Afghan security forces to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda is reminiscent of Glendower's boast in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 that he could call spirits from the vasty deep.

    Bruce Fein: Congresswoman Harman's Afghan Delusions Bruce Fein 2010

  • Harman's confidence in the prowess of the trained Afghan security forces to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda is reminiscent of Glendower's boast in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 that he could call spirits from the vasty deep.

    Bruce Fein: Congresswoman Harman's Afghan Delusions Bruce Fein 2010

  • Designing without testing is akin to Glendower's claim in Henry IV that he can "call spirits from the vasty deep."

    Paul Brest: Where do Theories of Change come From, and to Whom do They Belong? 2009

  • Glendower's Welsh daughter in I Henry IV marries Lord Mortimer; how she was mothered we do not learn.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Henry IV. reached Shrewsbury just before Percy, and it was of the utmost importance to him that he should engage the latter before his troops should be reinforced by Glendower's.

    Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

  • The first scene in the third act between Hotspur and Glendower is on this same highest level; Hotspur's impatience of Glendower's bragging at length finds an unforgetable phrase:

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • The first scene in the third act between Hotspur and Glendower is on this same highest level; Hotspur's impatience of Glendower's bragging at length finds an unforgetable phrase:

    The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

  • "You and I will drive to Lady Glendower's, where we shall stay the night."

    Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

  • Following up his victory with quick and determined action, the boy general hurried at the heels of Glendower's broken ranks, and on Sunday, the fifteenth of March, 1405, faced them again under the old towers of the castle of Usk. Swift and sudden fell his attack.

    Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874

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