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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. "
Macbeth. King John. King Richard II.-v. 2. King Henry IV. King Henry V.-v. 3 ... - Page 186
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1864 - 1100 pages
...subjection everlastingly. Sal, And the like tender of our love we make, To rest without a spot for evermore. in This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror^ But when it first...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: King John. King Richard II. The first and ...

William Shakespeare - 1864 - 686 pages
...everlastingly. 105 Sal. And the like tender of our love we make, To rest without a spot for evermore. P. Hen. I have a kind soul that would give you thanks...tears. Bast. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, no Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...
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Complete Works of W. Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 pages
...Sal. And the like tender of our love we make, To rest without a spot for evermore. P. Hen. I havea n ; and in his forehead sH> A bare-ribb'd death, whose...is this day To feast upon whole thousands of the hut needful woe, nee it Imtli been lu-furt-hand with our griefs. — This England never did (nor never...
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The Life and Death of King John

William Shakespeare - 1927 - 160 pages
...make, To rest without a spot for evermore. P. Hen. I have a kind soul that would give [you] thanks, 108 And knows not how to do it but with tears. Bast. O,...our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall, 112 Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1927 - 782 pages
...of classes. The moral is explicitly drawn in the concluding speech of the bastard Falconbridge : ' This England never did — nor never shall — Lie...conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. . . . Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.' also fundamental ; and at the...
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Antiquity Forgot: Essays on Shakespeare, Bacon and Rembrandt

Howard B. White - 1978 - 176 pages
...over France as over religious wars. Perhaps the most indicative lines are part of his closing speech: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. (V, vii, 112-114) Lincoln was to say much the same thing of his own country. The optimism is quite...
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King John: New Perspectives

Deborah T. Curren-Aquino - 1989 - 220 pages
...closest sustained borrowing in Shakespeare's text), the Bastard pronounces the lesson of Tudor homilies: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror. But when it first did help to wound itself. .... Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true! (5.7.112-18) This signifies closure....
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Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories

Jean Elizabeth Howard, Phyllis Rackin - 1997 - 276 pages
...And true subjection everlastingly" (104—5) to the new king and proclaiming the jingoistic moral: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Nought shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (V.vii.112-18) As many critics have...
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The Genius of Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 pages
...taste in Shakespeare. His quotations included 'the never-to-beforgotten words' which close King John ('This England, never did, nor never shall, / Lie...conqueror, / But when it first did help to wound itself), the 'imperishable' praise of England from the lips of the dying John of Gaunt in Richard II, and a...
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres

Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pages
...John's son, he sounds less like the selfish Edmond than like the prophetic John of Gaunt in Richard II: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (5. 7. 112-14, 117-18) It's a rousing...
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