 | William Teignmouth Shore - 1920 - 202 sivua
...and James by "The Globe" players. Shakespeare indulged in the dangerous practice of prophecy : — Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...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 sivua
...their heels. Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in: As, by a lower but loving likelihood, 5 Were now the general of our gracious Empress (As in...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 sivua
...positing of the 1599 date, which is always grounded on these lines of the ChorusPrologue to Act v. : Were now the General of our gracious Empress, As in...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 - 462 sivua
...Poem of Conquest. One 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...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,... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1923 - 262 sivua
...chorus, after describing the glorious victory at Agincourt, expresses the uncertainty of the present. "Were now the general of our gracious Empress (As...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... | |
 | Laura Hanes Cadwallader - 1923 - 162 sivua
...pp. 88-89. 57 National Manuscripts of Ireland (London, 1884), p. 245. CHAPTER IV THE FALL OP ESSEX "Were now the general of our gracious empress (As...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 - 256 sivua
...chorus, after describing the glorious victory at Agincourt, expresses the uncertainty of the present. "Were now the general of our gracious Empress (As...sword, How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome himl" Another Elizabethan poet, Edmund Spenser, had taken part in these Irish wars and had very decided... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - 1923 - 720 sivua
...plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in: As, by a lower, but loving, likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! But Essex, like other great men who have attempted to solve the Irish problem, lamentably failed, and... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 348 sivua
...It will be remembered that Shakespeare was equally sanguine : As, by a lower but loving likelihood,1 Were now the general of our gracious empress. As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him Henry V.. V. (chorus). Essex was too big a fish for Bacon to let go for his chances of advancement... | |
 | Maggs Bros - 1927 - 638 sivua
...enthusiastic reception, by the people of London when he should retain after broaching rebellion in Ireland. " Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! " But Shakespeare's prognostication was woefully belied, Essex's Irish policy failed and he was dismissed... | |
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Like to the senators of th' 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... 
