 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1918 - 320 páginas
...passage in the Prologue to Act V : " As, by a lesser but loving likelihood, 133 Were now the general of our gracious Empress As in good time he may —...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! " In these lines there is admittedly a clear reference to the expedition of the Earl of Essex to... | |
 | George Wyndham - 1919 - 502 páginas
...Fifth Act of his Henry V. a prophetic picture of their victorious return : — ' Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! ' The play was produced in the spring of that year, but its prophecy went unfulfilled. Essex failed... | |
 | William Teignmouth Shore - 1920 - 200 páginas
...Globe " players. Shakespeare indulged in the dangerous practice of prophecy : — Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! This allusion to Essex was dragged in by the neck. Essex came back, discredited, to become himself... | |
 | Basil Brown - 1921 - 398 páginas
...and fetch their conquering Caesar in: As, by a lower but loving likelihood, 5 Were now the general of our gracious Empress (As in good time he may) from...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him!" . Little did Shakespeare dream that Essex would one day put the city to that test wherein he found... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1922 - 280 páginas
...date, which is always grounded on these lines of the ChorusPrologue to Act v. : Were now the General of our gracious Empress, As in good time he may, from...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! The reference is almost certainly to Essex,1 who set out on his expedition to Ireland in April, 1599,... | |
 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 460 páginas
...clue to the date of King Henry the Fifth is in the Prologue to the fifth Act : Were now the general of our gracious Empress, As in good time he may, from...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! Though there was constant fighting in Ireland it seems safe to conclude that this general was Essex,... | |
 | Laura Hanes Cadwallader - 1923 - 162 páginas
...National Manuscripts of Ireland (London, 1884), p. 245. CHAPTER IV THE PALL OF ESSEX "Were now the general of our gracious empress (As in good time he may,)...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! ' ' SHAKESPEARE, Henry V, Prologue How different was Essex's home-coming from that predicted by Shakespeare... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1923 - 262 páginas
...the glorious victory at Agincourt, expresses the uncertainty of the present. "Were now the general of our gracious Empress (As in good time he may) from...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him!" Another Elizabethan poet, Edmund Spenser, had taken part in these Irish wars and had very decided opinions... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 1979 - 288 páginas
...how London doth pour out her citizens' — As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! Dover Wilson thought that Henry V was written as a direct encouragement to Essex 'to become that kind... | |
 | Peter Thomson - 1992 - 224 páginas
...forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in: As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress As in good time he may - from...much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry. It is most unlikely that Shakespeare knew the extent of the queen's displeasure with the Earl of Essex,... | |
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Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, — Go forth, and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but by loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress (As in good time he may) from... 
