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" It shall not, must not, cannot, e'er be so. The day shall come when Albion's self shall feel Stern Afric's wrath, and writhe 'neath Afric's steel. I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their sugars on their own account ; 30 While round her... "
The Cambridge Review - Page 18
1888
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Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters: The Story of His Life and ...

John Camden Hotten - 1864 - 294 pages
...Afric's steel. I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their sugars on their own account. 30 While round her throne the prostrate nations come, Sue for her rice, and barter for her rum ! 32 friend suggested " Bang " as a stronger expression, but as African gunpowder is notoriously bad,...
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Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters: The Story of His Life and ...

John Camden Hotten - 1864 - 268 pages
...shall come when Albion's self shall feel Stern Afric's wrath, and writhe 'neath Afric's steel. I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their sugars on their own account. 30 While round her throne the prostrate nations come, Sue for her rice, and barter for her rum ! 32...
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Thackeray the humourist and the man of letters, including a selection from ...

John Camden Hotten - 1864 - 276 pages
...shall come when Albion's self shall feel Stern Afric's wrath, and writhe 'neath Afric's steel. I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their sugars on their own account ; 30 While round her throne the prostrate nations come, Sue for her rice, and barter for her rum !...
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Anecdote Biographies of Thackeray and Dickens

Richard Henry Stoddard - 1874 - 336 pages
...shall come when Albion's self shall feel Stern Afric's wrath, and writhe 'neath Afric's steel. I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their sugars on their own account ; 30 While round her throne the prostrate nations come, Sue for her rice, and barter for her rum !...
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Anecdote Biographies of Thackeray and Dickens

Richard Henry Stoddard - 1875 - 346 pages
...Afric's steel. I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their sugars on their own account ; 30 While round her throne the prostrate nations come, Sue for her rice, and barter for her rum ! 32 This concludes with a little vignette in the "Titmarsh" manner, representing an Indian smoking...
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Anecdote Biographies of Thackeray and Dickens

Richard Henry Stoddard - 1875 - 348 pages
...shall come when Albion's self shall feel Stern Afric's wrath, and writhe 'neath Afric's steel. I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their sugars on their own account ; 30 While round her throne the prostrate nations come, Sue for her rice, and barter for her rum !...
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Thackeray, Volume 12

Anthony Trollope - 1879 - 224 pages
...and curled ; And somewhere there, unknown to public view, A mighty city lies, called Timbuctoo. I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their...nations come, Sue for her rice, and barter for her rum. I cannot find in The Snob internal evidence of much literary merit beyond tins. But then how many great...
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The Poets Laureate of England: Being a History of the Office of Poet ...

Walter Hamilton - 1879 - 346 pages
...shall come when Albion's self shall feel Stern Afric's wrath, and writhe 'neath Afrio's steel. I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their sugars on their own account ; 30 While round her throne the prostrate nations come, Sue for her rice, and barter for her rum !...
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Acme Library of Standard Biography: Third Series

1880 - 556 pages
...I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their sugar on their own account ; While around her throne the prostrate nations come, Sue for her rice, and barter for her ram. I cannot find in TJie Snob internal evidence of much literary merit beyond this. But then how...
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Alfred Tennyson: His Life and Works

Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1881 - 226 pages
...; And somewhere there, unknown to public view, A mighty city lies called Timbuctoo. * * * ยป I see her tribes the hill of Glory mount, And sell their...nations come, Sue for her rice, and barter for her rum.' Like Thackeray, Alfred Tennyson left the University without taking a degree. It is curious that the...
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