 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
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 pages
...road ; But equally a want of books and men ! FREEDOM. (Sonnet XVI.) It is not to be thought of thaj the Flood Of British freedom, which to the open Sea...Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters, unwithstood," Which spurns the check of salutary bands, — That this most famous Stream in Bogs and Sands Should... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road ; Rut equally a want of books and men I 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 H.nh flowed, "with pomp of waters unwithstood," Roused though it... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 490 pages
...In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. ccxi WORDSWORTH TT is nOt tO be thought of that the Flood •*• Of British freedom, which, to the open sea 1770 — 1850 ' Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, 'with pomp of waters, unwithstood,'... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WE MUST BE FREE, OR DIE. It cene ! How often have I paused on every charm —...cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, forever ! In our halls is hung Armory of the invincible knights of old : We must be free or die who... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road : But equally a want of books and men 1 xvI. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...of salutary bands. That this most famous Stream in bo^s and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost forever. In our halls is hung Armory... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 388 pages
...fairy tales see subsequent notes. p. 6, 1. 22. in whose halls. From Wordsworth's sonnet beginning, It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom. p. 6, 1. 37. noquo enim debet., etc. "For the fact that a writer is living should not hinder the success... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1916 - 674 pages
...peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.' Yet, in spite of all, ' It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...Should perish, and to evil and to good Be lost for ever ; ' and, though Englishmen change swords for ledgers, his faith and love are stronger than his fears... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 600 pages
...can never destroy. Nor is there any reason to assume that what has been once shall not again be, or ' That this most famous stream in bogs and sands Should...perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever.' And in truth our time, if it be not a time of giants, is not one we have need to blush for if we would... | |
 | John Rylands Library - 1917 - 556 pages
...stands, by its soul, for something indestructible in the world's history, in the life of humanity. It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...the world's praise from dark antiquity Hath flowed, . . . should perish, and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our Halls is hung Armoury of the... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...ballads . . . which form a fining background for Wordsworth's smug and sonorous patriotic sonnets: It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...antiquity Hath flowed, "with pomp of waters, unwithstood," . . . "Not to be thought of; and yet, at this very time, freedom of the press, of public meeting, of... | |
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