 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 Seiten
...shout, and echoed it back with her island voice, from her thousand cliffs and craggy shores, in a longer and a louder strain. With that cry, the genius of...rose, and threw down the gauntlet to the nations. There was a mighty fermentation : the waters were out ; public opinion was in a state of projection.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 Seiten
...shout, and echoed it back with her island voice, from her thousand cliffs and craggy shores, in a longer and a louder strain. With that cry, the genius of...rose, and threw down the gauntlet to the nations. There was a mighty fermentation : the waters were out ; public opinion was in a state of projection.... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1826 - 346 Seiten
...; but England joined the shout, and echoed it back with her island voice, from her thousand-cliffs and craggy shores, in a larger and a louder strain....gauntlet to the nations."* From the lust, cupidity, and corruption'—from the vices and depravities of Henry VIII. and his Court,-— perhaps the most degraded... | |
 | 1840 - 588 Seiten
...shout, and echoed it back with her island voice from her thousand cliffs and craggy shores in a longer and a louder strain. With that cry the genius of Great...Britain rose and threw down the gauntlet to the nations. There was a mighty fermentation : the waters were out ; public opinion was in a state of projection.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...shout, and echoed it back with her island voice from her thousand cliffs and craggy shores, in a longer and a louder strain. With that cry the genius of Great...Britain rose and threw down the gauntlet to the nations. There was a mighty fermentation : the waters were out ; public opinion was in a state of projection.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 232 Seiten
...shout, and echoed it back with her island voice from her thousand cliffs and craggy shores, in a longer and a louder strain. With that cry the genius of Great Britain rose iand threw down the gauntlet to the nations. There was a mighty fermentation: the waters were out;... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 Seiten
...and echoed it back, with her island voice, from her thousand cliffs and craggy shores, in a longer and a louder strain. With that cry, the genius of...rose, and threw down the gauntlet to the nations. There was a mighty fermentation : the waters were out ; public opinion was in a state of projection.... | |
 | 1863 - 896 Seiten
...and craggy shores in a longer and louder strain. With that cry," as Hazlett beautifully continues, "the genius of Great Britain rose and threw down the gauntlet to the nations." Not arbitrarily, then, but naturally the old historic ballads looked toward the border. That was the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 Seiten
...and echoed it back, with her island voice, from her thousand cliffs and craggy shores, in a longer and a louder strain. With that cry, the genius of...rose, and threw down the gauntlet to the nations. There was a mighty fermentation : the waters were out; public opinion was in a state of projection.... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...shout and echoed it back with her island voice, from her thousand cliffs and craggy shores, in a longer and a louder strain. With that cry the genius of Great...Britain rose and threw down the gauntlet to the nations. There was a mighty fermentation ; the waters were out ; public opinion was in a state of projection... | |
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... louder strain. With that cry, the genius of Great Britain rose, and threw down the gauntlet to the nations. There was a mighty fermentation : the waters were out; public opinion was in a state of projection. Liberty was held out to all to think and... 
