 | John Bell - English poetry - 1790 - 380 pages
...In rapture too severe for weak Mortality." ODE XXIII. TO INDEPENDENCE. BY T. SMOLLETT, MD STROPHE. THY spirit, Independence, let me share ! Lord of the...thee forth, Immortal Liberty, whose look sublime Hath blanch'd the tyrant's cheek in ev'ry varying clime; What time the iron-hearted Gaul With frantic Superstition... | |
 | English poetry - 1790 - 194 pages
...weak Mortality." TO INDEPENDENCE. BY T. SMOLLETT, MD STROPHE. THY spirit, Independence, let me share I Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I...thee forth, Immortal Liberty, whose look sublime Hath blanch'd the tyrant's cheek in ev'ry varying clime ; What time the iron-hearted Gaul With frantic Superstition... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 pages
...be wished ?" " Thy spirit, Independence, let me share j " Lord of the lion-heart, and eagle eye ! " Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, " Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky !" Are not these noble verses ? They are the introduction of Smollefs Ode to Independence : If you... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1805 - 908 pages
...devoutly to be wished?" "Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; Lord of ihe lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I. follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky !" " Are not these noble verses ? They are the introduction of Smollet's Ode to Independence. How wretched... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 506 pages
...turrets, bid defiance to the storms of fate. And is not this a " consummation devoutly to be wished ?" " Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ; Lord of the...eagle-eye! Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, JJ or heed the storm that howls along the sky !" Are not these noble verses ? They are the introduction... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...Independence. STftOPHE. IHY spirit, Independence, let me share Lord of the lion-heart, and eagle-eye, 1'hy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm...violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty, whose looks sublime, Hath bleach'd the tyrant's cheek in every vayring clime : What time the iron-hearted... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...Caledonia, mourn " Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn." « XLI. ODE TO INDEPENDENCE SMOLLET. STROPHE. THY spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the...violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty, whose looks sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying . ; clime. What time the iron-hearted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...words " howl" and " along,'1 contribute, in a peculiar manner, to the sublimity of the description. " Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I...bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky." These lines are written in the true spirit of lyric poetry. Without preparing the mind by a cool artificial... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...words " howl" and " along,1* contribute, in a peculiar manner, to the sublimity of the description. " Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that bowls along the iky." These lines are written in the true spirit of lyric poetry. Without preparing... | |
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Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; Lord of the lion-heart, and eagle-eye! Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky! 
