 | Loyalist - France - 1803 - 344 pages
...contemplate, uninjured, the wreck of surrounding states. -" This England never dldj nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true." I sincerely congratulate... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1803 - 558 pages
...moft confidently, proclaim to the trembling world around us, " This England never did, nor nevef stall Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. Come the three corners of the world in arms And we (hall fliock them : nought (hall make us If England to itfelf do reft but true." An Address to the... | |
 | Lewis Goldsmith - France - 1810 - 674 pages
...do it, and Bonaparte can never add her to his triumphal car. " England never did, nor never shall, " Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. — " Come the three corners of the world in arms, " And we shall shock them." But let her beware of making peace with him, •which she cannot do with safety,... | |
 | Lewis Goldsmith - France - 1810 - 672 pages
...do it, and Bonaparte can never add her to his triumphal car. " England never did, nor never shall, " Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.— " Come the three corners of the world in arms, *f And we shall shock them." But let her beware of making peace with him, •which she cannot do with... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1823 - 578 pages
...equally defy impotent croakers and designing plot-mongers. 'This England never did nor never shall ' Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. ' Come the three corners of the world in arms, ' And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, ' If England to ilbelf do rest but true." LEWIS GOLDSMITH.... | |
 | Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 pages
...thisearth.thisrealjn, this England!" With a prophetic spirit he exclaims — " This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to herself do prove but true." After two hundred... | |
 | 1834 - 100 pages
...forth feelings corresponding with those of the poet, who sang, " England never did, nor never shall Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought can make us rue, If England to herself do rest but true." SHAKSPEARE. After... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...lines in King John : — Falconbridge proclaiming, — • " This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. * » * » *...Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them." And in the whole range of prose and verse there is probably no passage which comes... | |
 | Robert Cowtan - 1866 - 436 pages
...greatest poet will cease to be verified, that — " This England never did — and never shall — Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them ! If aught shall make us rue, If England, to herself, do rest but true." I return... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...to the rescue in these noble lines : "England hath never yet, and never shall Lie at the proud feet of a conqueror. Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to herself do prove but true." What more fitting... | |
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This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror . . . Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. 
