| Hugh Grady - 2002 - 320 pages
...bridge the considerable class gap between himself, the 'men of quality', and the common troops: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that...so vile, This day shall gentle his condition. And gentiemen in England now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods... | |
| Sean Sweeney, Ian Hodder - 2002 - 200 pages
...shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered, We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that...ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition. In fact, very little is offered the common man in this magnificent prolepsis of immortal fame. Poetry... | |
| Colin White - 2002 - 380 pages
...play, Henry i\ when the King, rallying his greatly outnumbered troops before battle, refers to, We few, we happy few, we band of brothers For he today that...ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition. \Henty V, IV, 3) Nelson was clearly familiar with the Agincourt speech, so much so that it seems likely... | |
| Daniel N. Rolph - 2002 - 176 pages
...attributes to King Henry V during the conflict with the French at the batde of Agincourt in 1415: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today that...be my brother, Be he neer so vile, This day shall gende his condition."16 Though Rebels and Yankees served on opposing sides and differed in cultural,... | |
| Nicholas Grene - 2002 - 302 pages
...convinced by the incognito royal self-justification. Before Agincourt Henry addresses his men as a 'band of brothers': For he today that sheds his blood...ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition. (4.3.61-3) This levelling egalitarianism of the battlefield appears to have been forgotten by the time... | |
| Kenneth E. Hamburger - 2003 - 282 pages
...purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. ... We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that...gentlemen in England, now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon... | |
| Robert Grilley - 2003 - 212 pages
...shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that...shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-abed, Shall think themselves accursed they were not here And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any... | |
| Richard C. Lamb, Jr. - 2010
...Authenticity From concealment to openness Vulnerability The Mission of God in the Company of Friends We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that...shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles... | |
| William Barclay - 1968 - 492 pages
...Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say, These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' [-..] And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves...manhoods cheap while any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. When someone is called on to suffer something for Christianity, that is always... | |
| Louis Auchincloss - 2004 - 250 pages
...shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered, We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he, today that...speaks That fought with us upon St. Crispin's day. and that King Henry's seizing on an abstruse dynastic claim for the French crown had been only the... | |
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