 | Georg Brandes - 1898 - 422 pages
...to the fifth act of Henry V. England received her victorious King, he says — " As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! " We have seen, moreover, how early and how intimate was his connection with the young Earl of Southampton,... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 536 pages
...ception by the people of London when he should come home after ' broaching ' rebellion in Ireland. Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him !— (Act v. Chorus, 11. 3o-4.) the would-be pacificator of Ireland on March 27, 1599. The fact that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1898 - 512 pages
...the chorus to the Fifth Act of his Henry V. a prophetic picture of their victorious return : — ' Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...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... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1898 - 744 pages
...to the fifth act of Henry V. England received her victorious King, he says — " As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city O4uit. To welcome him ! " We have seen, moreover, how early and how intimate was his connection with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 386 pages
...inferred from what is said concerning the latter in the chorus preceding Act v. of Henry V. ;— " As by a lower but by loving likelihood, Were now the...much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry." The last words are to be noted, as well as the hatred for rebellion which Shakespeare expresses. And... | |
 | 1899 - 434 pages
...alten Königin und ihrem früheren Günstling gewiß nicht auf der Seite des rebellischen Grafen waren. Were. now the general of our gracious empress, As...Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would thc peaceful city quit To welcome him! (Akt V, Chorus 30 ff.). Die Entstehungszeit dieser Verse läßt... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1900 - 270 pages
...reception byijT^p^lilfL-Cvf London wh^n- he shOutd Lu1neJ1um^ajJ^'^roacri'r1g ' jp>»>llinn in Trplpnrl Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! (Act v. Chorus, 11. 30-4.) Essex had set out on his disastrous mission as the wouldbe pacificator... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Great Britain - 1900 - 312 pages
...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...coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword. Now many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him!" Essex left London, to suppress the rebellion... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 384 pages
...first to Caesar's return as conqueror to Rome and then to Essex's anticipated return from Ireland: As, by a lower but by loving likelihood, Were now...much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry." Notice the prudent qualification that this is "a lower . . . likelihood" insofar as Essex is but "the... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Theater - 1992 - 224 pages
...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...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... 
