 | Henry W. Wells - 1924 - 264 页
...poet's rhetoric. These are, save one, the closing lines of King John. This England never did nor ever shall Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when...princes are come home again, Come the three corners of tiie world in arms And we shall shock them. V, 7, 112 The student of metaphor inquires: 'how shock'... | |
 | 1908 - 1058 页
...heart to his countrymen in the stirring lines with which Faulconbridge winds up the play of King John : This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...shock them : nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do prove but true. One can fancy what a cheer arose in the Globe Theatre at the first declamation... | |
 | 1906 - 518 页
...medical men. and do good work. Let me remind you in conclusion of the words of Faulconbridge :— " This England never did nor never shall Lie at the...shock them ; nought shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true." Old Students' Reu)s. (Contributions to this column are very particularly... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 1979 - 288 页
...convenient focus for the loyalty of a reunited England in the Bastard's speech at the close of the day. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (V.vii.1 12-18) How is England to rest... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - 1992 - 366 页
...reference to other, foreign nations is conveyed in Faulconbridge's famous lines that end the history: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...shock them! Nought shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true! 19 His conditional "if" is appropriate, pointing back as it does to the preceding... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 页
...thanks, And knows not how to do it but with tears. BASTARD. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeunt. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW DRAMATIS... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 324 页
...Bifuni) at II. i lo-i I. monument in England. BASTARD trisingl 0, let us pay the time but needful woe. Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This...corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them! Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Exeunt no timeA] HOWE; time: F 117... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 744 页
...fundamental idea of the whole piece seems to be conveyed in its closing lines, delivered by Faulconbridge: 'This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at...shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.' For this truth to herself, this concord, can only be preserved when the state... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 页
...famous by their birth. Ac. Add the famous passage in King John : — This England never did, nor ever shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when...corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. And it certainly seems that Shakspeare's... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 页
...threatened invasion (in 1745, and during the Napoleonic scares) : O let us pay the time but needful woe. Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This...wound itself. Now these her princes are come home Faulconbridge, Robert Ferdinand, King of Navarre again, Come the three corners of the world in arms,... | |
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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. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall... 
