 | Lytton Strachey - 1928 - 328 Seiten
...citizens!" So spoke the Chorus in "Henry V," describing the victorious return of the King from France — "As, by a lower but by loving likelihood, Were now...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him!" The passage was no doubt applauded, and yet it is possible to perceive even here, through the swelling... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1928 - 324 Seiten
...citizens!" So spoke the Chorus in "Henry V," describing the victorious return of the King from France— "As, by a lower but by loving likelihood, Were now...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him!" The passage was no doubt applauded, and yet it is possible to perceive even here, through the swelling... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 1979 - 288 Seiten
...victory of Agincourt - 'Behold . . . how London doth pour out her citizens' — As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...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... | |
 | Mervyn Evans James - 1986 - 496 Seiten
...Henry V he gave expression to the Londoner's adulation of Essex, who had just departed for Ireland: "Were now the general of our gracious empress,/ As...How many would the peaceful city quit/ To welcome him."130 It was as "the general of our gracious empress", that the earl's heroic image as the embodiment... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 264 Seiten
...out her citizens, The mayor and all his brethren in best sort, 25 Like to the senators of th'antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels,...likelihood Were now the general of our gracious empress, 30 (As in good time he may) from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many... | |
 | W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - 1996 - 356 Seiten
...description of Henry's triumphal return to London. we have the following lines: As. by a lower but loving likelihood. Were now the General of our gracious...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! (V.Chorus.29-34) • The empress was Elizabeth. the general was the Earl of Essex who had not yet returned... | |
 | James Loehlin - 2000 - 194 Seiten
...based on the Chorus's lines referring to Essex's ill-fated expedition to put down an Irish rebellion: Were now the General of our Gracious Empress As in...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! (V.Chorus.30-4) Essex left London on 27 March, and returned on 28 September to face charges about his... | |
 | Stephen Bretzius - 1997 - 180 Seiten
...identification with the ongoing campaign of Essex in Ireland: The Mayor and all his brethren in best sort . . . Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in, As...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! (5.cho.25-34) Syntactically (and even tactically), "Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in"... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 Seiten
...to current events which enables us to be pretty sure when it was written: the Chorus to Act 5 says: Were now the General of our gracious Empress As in...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! The 'General' must be the Earl of Essex, whose 'Empress', Elizabeth, had sent him on an Irish campaign... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 356 Seiten
...Several lines in the Chorus to Act Five make this almost indisputable: As, by a lower but high-loving likelihood, Were now the General of our gracious Empress...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! (5.0.29-34) 'Our gracious Empress' must be Elizabeth I, who died in 1603, and 1 AR Humphreys argues... | |
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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... 
