 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...  Elegant extracts in poetry - 第661页作者：Elegant extracts - 1816全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Deborah T. Curren-Aquino - 1989 - 220 页
...God's presence or absence is displaced. King John concludes with the Bastard's rousing clarion call: Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. (5.7.116-18) 34 need and a dramatic distraction from King John's ambivalence. Bellicose nationalism... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars, Ton 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 proud...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 period of complex... | |
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