 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 loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland...  Dictionary of National Biography - Page 420edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 916 pages
...their heels, Go forth, and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but by loving likelihood, H 0 ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry. Now, in London place him. As yet the lamentation... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 446 pages
...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...his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To weleome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry. Now, in London place him. As yet... | |
 | Stephen Bretzius - Drama - 1997 - 180 pages
...best sort . . . 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...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...Shakespeare. In the chorus at the beginning of the fifth act of Henry I' we hear the followmg lines: Were now the General of our gracious Empress As in...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him' 5.1 30-34) Any audience member at the Globe theatre with the remotest knowledge of contemporary affairs... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 356 pages
...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 As in...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... | |
 | Penry Williams - History - 1998 - 650 pages
...heels, Go forth and fetch their conqu'ring Caesar in: As, by a lower but high-loving likelihood, VV ere now the general of our gracious empress, — As in...broached on his sword. How many would the peaceful ciry quit To welcome himI much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry. Essex might be accorded... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 284 pages
...the citizens of London flocking to "their conqu'ring Caesar," As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the General of our gracious Empress — As...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! (5.prologuc.iJ8-34) Most critics read this passage as praise of Essex, although it states only that... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Drama - 1999 - 334 pages
...Folger 1nstitute seminar, "Shakespeare and the Designs of Empire." for their constructive comments. Were now the general of our gracious Empress, As in...his sword. How many would the peaceful city quit. To weleome him! William Shakespeare, Hrnrj VSCho.30-341 MAN OR WOMAN," WRITES THE KENYAN NOVELIST NgugT... | |
 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...London's citizens' welcome for the victorious Henry v to that to be expected in Shakespeare's own time: Were now the General of our gracious Empress — As...Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword n As scholars are readily agreed, the 'General of our gracious Empress' (throughout Shakespeare's surviving... | |
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