 | J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...kingdom to dangers from without as well as from within. In King John one of the noblemen says, This England never did, nor never shall Lie at the proud...conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself. (John V 7 112-14) The patterns that apply to the stability of an outward kingdom pertain also to the... | |
 | John Sugden - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 984 pages
...its proud boast: 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. Most lovingly of all did Nelson misquote the words Shakespeare gave his hero Henry V before the battle... | |
 | Jeffrey Kahan - Drama - 2004 - 392 pages
...Rowe's/ane Shore (1.2.126). 5.1.10-14 O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts (Henry V, IV.i.289) This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. (King John, V.vii.m-14) Francklin's "Great God of armies" is clearly taken from Henry V; his sentiment... | |
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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... 
