 Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old...  A Century of Revolution - Seite 211von William Samuel Lilly - 1890 - 239 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 Seiten
...volume 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...sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flow'd,' with pomp of waters unwithstood'— Road by which all might come and go that would, And bear... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 Seiten
...their 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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...volume 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 Seiten
...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...antiquity Hath flowed, with 'pomp of waters unwithstood,' Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...high 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...antiquity Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters, unwithstood : ' Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 Seiten
...life's 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...Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters, unwithstood," Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous... | |
 | Charles Dunham Deshler - 1879 - 334 Seiten
...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...antiquity Hath flowed, "with pomp of waters, unwithstood," Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous... | |
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