| Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1768 - 366 pages
...pris'ners to our ifle : Under the tropic is our language fpoke : And part of FLANDERS hath receiv'd our yoke. From civil broils he did us disengage ;...Found nobler objects for our martial rage : And, with wife conduit, to his country fhow'd The antient way of conquer'ng abroad. Ungrateful then ! if we no... | |
| Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...last legacy to Britain left. The ocean, which so long our hopes confin'd, Could give no limits to his vaster mind ; Our bounds' enlargement was his latest toil, Nor hath he left us prisoners to our ilse ; Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath rcceiv'd our yoke. From civil... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 512 pages
...Spaniards reft, EDMUND WALLEB. The ocean, which so long our hopes confined, Could give no limits to his vaster mind, Our bounds' enlargement was his latest toil ; Nor hath he left us pris'ners to our isle : Under the tropic is our language spoke : And part of FLANDERS hath receiv'd... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...Britain left. The ocean, which so long our hopes confin'd, Could give no limits to his vaster mind ; Oar bounds' enlargement was his latest toil, Nor hath...tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. From civil broils he did us disengage, Found nobler objects for our martial rage... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...last legacy to Britain left. The ocean, which so long our hopes confin'd. Could give no limits to his s she thought him but an ass, Much more sppke, And part of Flanders hath recciv'd our yoke. From civil broils he did us disengage, Found nobler... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...last legacy to Britain left. The ocean, which so long our hopes confin'd, Could give no limits to his vaster mind ; Our bounds' enlargement was his latest toil, Nor hath he left.us prisoners to our isle : t'nder the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 606 pages
...than which nothing creates greater surprize. On the extent of the British arms : Under the tropics is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received our yoke.'\ On a warrior : And thou Dalhousie the great God of war, Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl o On the valour... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...vaster mind ; Our bound's' enlargement was his latest toil, Nor hath he left us pris'ners to our ,sle : liam receiv'd our yoke. From civil broils he did us disengage, Found nobler objects for our marnal rage... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...last legaey to Britain left. The Mean, whieh so long our hopes eonfin'd, Could give no limits to his pris'ners to our isle : Under the tropie is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath reeeiv'd... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...tropic of Cancer, and the south the tropic of Capricorn : belonging to the tropics. Under the tropick is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received our yoke. n'aller. Since on every sea, ou ev'ry coast, Your men have been distressed, your navy tost, Seven times... | |
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