 | Alfred Pownall - Bible - 1864 - 112 pages
...mighty piece as this is, With all the virtues that attend the good, Shall still be doubled on her: truth shall nurse her; Holy and heavenly thoughts...shall be lov'd and fear'd: her own shall bless her ; 2 Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And bang their heads with sorrow: good grows with her,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1927 - 782 pages
...vision of the high destiny reserved for the English people under the sceptre of the virgin Queen : ' Truth shall nurse her, Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her : She shall be loved and feared : her own shall bless her, Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their... | |
 | Mark Dominik - Arthur - 1991 - 314 pages
...prophecy in lines 14-55 contains repeated agricultural images. Let's consider one of these images, "Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, / And hang their heads with sorrow" (31-2). Shakespeare employs comparable imagery recurringly in his solo works; compare, for instance,... | |
 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...blessing upon the infant just born to Anne Boleyn, the future Queen Elizabeth, and prophesying of her: Truth shall nurse her, Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her; She shall be lov'd and fear'd. God shall be truly known; and those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, And by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2008 - 246 pages
...the 'ideal' that Shakespeare offers in Cranmer's speech? It is summed up in the praise of Elizabeth: Truth shall nurse her, Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her. She shall be loved and feared. Her own shall bless her; Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - History - 2000 - 440 pages
...Truth shall nurse her, Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her; She shall be loved and feared. Her own shall bless her, Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her; In her days, every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants,... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - History - 2000 - 434 pages
...mighty piece 9 as this is With all the virtues that attend the good Shall still 10 be doubled on her. Truth shall nurse her, Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her; She shall be loved and feared. Her own shall bless her, Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn And hang their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 180 pages
...shall nurse her, 29 Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her; 30 She shall be loved and feared; her own shall bless her; Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her; In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...mighty piece as this is, With all the virtues that attend the good, Shall still be doubled on her. Truth shall nurse her, Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her. She shall be loved and feared. Her own shall bless her; Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - Christian drama, English - 2002 - 396 pages
...must read them as symbols of a longer process of which we, today, form part. Of Elizabeth he says: Truth shall nurse her; Holy and heavenly thoughts...shall be lov'd, and fear'd. Her own shall bless her; 236 Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her.... | |
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Her own shall bless her: Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow: Good grows with her : In her days every man shall eat in safety, Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours... 
