 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
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1916 - 838 pages
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of books and men ! XVL IT is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters unwithstood "Road by which all might come and go that would, And bear out freights of worth to foreign lands ;... | |
 | Art - 1862 - 504 pages
...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 - 318 pages
...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...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 - English poetry - 1865 - 316 pages
...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...and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good i Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 pages
...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.}... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...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 [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...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 - English essays - 1869 - 372 pages
..." 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... | |
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