 This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall...  Elegant extracts in poetry - Page 661by Elegant extracts - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1906 - 518 pages
...medical men. and do good work. Let me remind you in conclusion of the words of Faulconbridge :— " This England never did nor never shall Lie at the proud...make us rue If England to itself do rest but true." Old Students' Reu)s. (Contributions to this column are very particularly requested.) BE Harper, MRCS,... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 1979 - 288 pages
...convenient focus for the loyalty of a reunited England in the Bastard's speech at the close of the day. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (V.vii.1 12-18) How is England to rest... | |
 | James C. Bryant - Drama - 1984 - 194 pages
...the Bastard — here the voice of English nationalism — the most celebrated lines of the play. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true."1 (5.7.112-118) Shakespeare's audience,... | |
 | Deborah T. Curren-Aquino - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 220 pages
...God's presence or absence is displaced. King John concludes with the Bastard's rousing clarion call: Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. (5.7.116-18) 34 need and a dramatic distraction from King John's ambivalence. Bellicose nationalism... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - Drama - 1992 - 366 pages
...reference to other, foreign nations is conveyed in Faulconbridge's famous lines that end the history: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...make us rue If England to itself do rest but true! 19 His conditional "if" is appropriate, pointing back as it does to the preceding period of complex... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...BASTARD. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. — This For that Joh 3 naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeunt. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW DRAMATIS... | |
 | Lars Magnusson - Commerce - 1997 - 264 pages
...native labour, and native energy, enterprise, and intellect, fair play and then in industry, as in arms: Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Commerce is merely the handmaid of industry. The proper sphere of commerce is to distribute industrial... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...famous by their birth. Ac. Add the famous passage in King John : — This England never did, nor ever shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when...corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. And it certainly seems that Shakspeare's... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...scares) : O let us pay the time but needful woe. Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall Lie at the proud...wound itself. Now these her princes are come home Faulconbridge, Robert Ferdinand, King of Navarre again, Come the three corners of the world in arms,... | |
 | A. James Reichley - Philosophy - 2002 - 312 pages
...national emergency: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror . . . Come the three corners of the world in arms And we...make us rue If England to itself do rest but true! At the same time, he understood, and brooded over, what was being lost. The ghost of Hamlet's father,... | |
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