 IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters, unwithstood,' Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary...  The Living Age - Page 1111908Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...windingsheet. And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. C'AiU'JJELL. SONXET. IT is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...bogs and sands Should perish, and to evil and to good IJe lost forever. In our halls is hung Armory of the- invincible knights of old: We must be free or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...windingsheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. CAMPBELL. SONNET. IT is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...dark antiquity Hath flowed, •' with pomp of waters un withstood," Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...windingsheet. And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulehre. t'AMPllELL. SONNET. IT is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath llowi:d. " tt'itli pomp of waters unwithstood," Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pages
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of books and men ! IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which, to th' open sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flow'd, " with pomp of waters, unwithstood,"... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1876 - 368 pages
...England's sublimer battle-cry of " Duty !" It was at this time that Wordsworth's sonnet appeared : — " It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...perish ! and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...other blessing, In thee must ever find a foe.-— Goldsmith. BRITISH FREEDOM. IT is not to be thought that the flood Of British Freedom, which to the open...praise from dark antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp of water unwithstood," Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...Freedom, which to the open sea Of the world's praise from dark antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp of water unwithstood," Roused though it be full often to a...spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most furious stream in bogs and sands Should perish, and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 pages
...Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free. It is not to bo thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which to the open sea Of the world's praise from dark iniquity Hath flowed " with pomp of waters, unwithstood," Ronsel though it be full often to a mood... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...spirit in which he met those times, and the temper he desired to inspire into his countrymen : " It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...perish, and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible knights of old ; We must be free or die, who speak the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 pages
...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. X. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our Halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the... | |
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