 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...  Poems, in Two Volumes, - Side 138af William Wordsworth - 1807 - 170 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1916 - 838 sider
...crisis wholly comparable to that which now faces us, wrote one of the greatest of Cambridge poets : ' It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...antiquity Hath flowed, with pomp of waters, unwithstood. ***** That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish, and to evil and to good Be lost... | |
 | 1862 - 504 sider
...lofty strains of one of our truest Poets, when he told his countrymen, threateneued with invasion : — It is not to be thought of— that the flood Of British...antiquity Hath flowed with pomp of waters unwithstood — Boused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary hands— That this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 316 sider
...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. LXXXVII 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 sider
...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. LXXXVII 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 Knight - 1865 - 946 sider
...TO OUR OWN TIMES. AERIDGED FROM THE POPULAR HISTOEY OF ENGLAND, THE SUPERINTENDENCE OP ITS AUTHOR. " The Flood Of British Freedom, which to the open sea...the world's praise from dark antiquity Hath flowed." WORDSWORTH. LONDON: BRADBURY & EVANS, 11, BOUYERIE STREET. 18C5. [The Right of Translation is reserved.}... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 sider
...vain, Jean; We'll meet, and aye be fain In the land o' the leal. Lady Nairn*. SONNETS TO LIBERTY. I. 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" p 210 WINE OF CYPRUS. Road by which all might come and go... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 sider
...codp, No master spirit, no determined road ! But equally a want of books and men 1 IT is not to11e thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which...dark antiquity Hath flowed, "with pomp of waters, un withstood;" Road by which all m:ght come and go that would, And bear out freights of worth to foreign... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 sider
...code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of books and men ! BRITISH FREEDOM. IT is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea ( if the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters, unwithstood : " Road... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1869 - 372 sider
..." Duty ! " It was at this time thf\t Wordsworth's sonnet appeared : — 26 •» " It is not to bs thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which...antiquity Hath flowed, with ' pomp of waters unwithstood," Boused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous... | |
 | 1869 - 1208 sider
...trumpet. What Englishman can read, without a thrill of patriotic feeling, such sentiments as these P — " 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,' — • * * « * That this most famous stream in bogs and... | |
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