 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 by loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress {As, in good time, he may)...  The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere - Page 497by William Shakespeare - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1900 - 270 pages
...reception byijT^p^lilfL-Cvf London wh^n- he shOutd Lu1neJ1um^ajJ^'^roacri'r1g ' jp>»>llinn in Trplpnrl Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! (Act v. Chorus, 11. 30-4.) Essex had set out on his disastrous mission as the wouldbe pacificator... | |
 | Israel Gollancz, Walter Bagehot - 1901 - 242 pages
...empress," who left London on March 27 of this year for Ireland to suppress Tyrone's rebellion:— " Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! " Essex returned on September 28, and was put on his trial for neglect of duty, and imprisoned. At... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 396 pages
...empress," who left London on March 27 of this year for Ireland to suppress Tyrone's rebellion : — " Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! " Essex returned on September 28, and was put on his trial for neglect of duty, and imprisoned. At... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 546 pages
...empress," who left London on March 27 of this year for Ireland to suppress Tyrone's rebellion : — " Were now the general of our gracious empress. As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! " Essex returned on September 28, and was put on his trial for neglect of duty, and imprisoned. At... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1902 - 350 pages
...victor of Agincourt, anticipates a return equally triumphant for the Earl : — As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! This would seem fatal to every pretence for considering Bacon to be Shakespeare ; for, when writing... | |
 | 1903 - 388 pages
...of Essex' expected return from the Irish wars, in the following passage in the Chorus to Act V. : " Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! " Now in the Epilogue to Henry IV. Part II. we have an allusion to some play of Shakespeare's that... | |
 | Arthur Acheson - 1903 - 382 pages
...of Essex' expected return from the Irish wars, in the following passage in the Chorus to Act V. : " Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! " Now in the Epilogue to Henry IV. Part II. we have an allusion to some play of Shakespeare's that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 352 pages
...the Horse, undoubtedly gave zest to the performances and point to the allusion in Act V. (Chorus), "Were now the general of our gracious empress, As...sword, How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome himl" Unfortunately, the mission of Essex as pacificator of Ireland utterly failed, and, in 1601, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 308 pages
...dates. The time of composition seems further defined by lines 30-35 in the Prologue of Act V: — " Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry." The allusion here is to the Earl of Essex, who left London, March 27, 1599, to quell an uprising in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 234 pages
...Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, 30 As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing...cause, Did they this Harry. Now in London place him ; KING fcENRY V. Act V. Sc. i. As yet the lamentation of the French Invites the King of England's stay... | |
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