 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view ; Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread...worth (he cries), in these degenerate days, Wants e'en the cheap reward of empty praise ; In those cursed walls, devote to vice and gain, Since unrewarded... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...some have understood Savage the poet, who took a journey into Wales after this poem was published. While Thales waits the wherry that contains Of dissipated...worth,' he cries, ' in these degenerate days, Wants ev'u the cheap reward of empty praise ; In those cursed walls, devote to vice and gain, Since unrewarded... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view ; Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread...with contemptuous frown, Indignant Thales eyes the neighb'ring town. d Since worth, he cries, in these degen'rate days, Wants ev'n the cheap reward of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Johnson - Literary Collections - 1825 - 508 pages
...back to view ; Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread of Spaiu, Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd Or English...with contemptuous frown, Indignant Thales eyes the neighb'ring town. d Since worth, he cries, in these degen'rate days, Wants ev'n the cheap reward of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...Greenwich, Behold her croes triumphant on the mnin, The guard of commerce, and the dread of Spain, Í к- masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd, Or English...a standing jest. A transient calm the happy scenes hestow, And for a moment lull the sense of wo. At length awaking, with contemptuous frown, Indignant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view ; Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread of Spain, Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress' d Or English honour grew a standing jest. A transient calm the happy scenes bestow, And, for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view ; Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread of Spain, u Ere masquerades debauch'd, ekcise oppress'd, "" . Or English honour grew a standing jest A transient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view ; Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread of Spain, masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd Or English honour grew a standing jest. A transient calm the... | |
 | Satire, English - 1831 - 790 pages
...Britannia's glories back to view : " Queen Elizabeth, born at Greenwich. Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread of Spain. Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise pppress'd, Or English honour grew a standing jest. A transient calm the happy scenes bestow, And for... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view ; Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread...with contemptuous frown, Indignant Thales eyes the neighb'ring town. PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. OARRICK, AT THE OPENING OK THE THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE,... | |
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Thames's banks, in silent thought, we stood Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood; Struck with the seat that gave Eliza * birth, We kneel, and kiss the consecrated earth; In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back... 
