 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...kiss the consecrated earth ; In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, 25 Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce and the dread of...oppress'd, Or English honour grew a standing jest. 3o A transient calm the happy scenes bestow, And for a moment lull the sense of woe. At length awaking,... | |
 | London (England) - 1872 - 594 pages
...kind of thiog in a poem called London, written in the year 1738: ' Behold her cross triumphant o'er the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread of...masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd, Or English Jumnur yretr a ttandinyjett.' hotel is a banqueting-hall full of broiled bones, anchovy toast, kippered... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view ; Behold her cross triumphant the cauld drift f rao their wings as they flee ; And...alang the bleak mountain, And shakes the dark firs on Thaïes eyes the neighbouring town : " Since worth," he cries, " in these degenerate days, Wants e'en... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - Great Britain - 1876 - 694 pages
...Hawkins, Drake, Frobisher, Cavendish, and other hardy navigators, displayed " Her cross, triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread of Spain * ;" and Elizabeth's reign witnessed the beginnings of two of the most wonderful empires of the world,... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1877 - 230 pages
...Hawkins, Drake, Fro•bisher, Cavendish, and other hardy navigators, displayed "Her cross, triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread of Spain * ; " and Elizabeth's reign witnessed the beginnings of two of the most wonderful empires of the world,... | |
 | 1885 - 478 pages
...the words of Burke. We are to " Call Britannia's glories back to view ; Behold her cross triumphant on the Main, The guard of commerce and the dread of Spain." In contrast with former glories, England, in Johnson's day, is " Of France the mimic and of Spain the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...their verdicts ought to be determined. WJ COURTHOPE. THALES' REASONS FOR LEAVING LONDON. [From London.] A transient calm the happy scenes bestow And for a...with contemptuous frown Indignant Thales eyes the neighb'ring town. Since worth, he cries, in these degenerate days Wants even the cheap reward of empty... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...248 THE ENGLISH POETS. THALES' REASONS FOR LEAVING LONDON. [From London."] A transient calm the bappy scenes bestow And for a moment lull the sense of woe....with contemptuous frown Indignant Thales eyes the neighb'ring town. Since worth, he cries, in these degenerate days Wants even the cheap reward of empty... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 pages
...••* •' - .'I \ , "v '• ' THALER' REASONS FOR LEAVING LONDON. . i i. [From London."] '"• ',, A transient calm the happy scenes bestow .:.. And...with contemptuous frown Indignant Thales eyes the neighb'ring town. Since worth, he cries, in these degenerate days Wants even the cheap reward of empty... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1881 - 638 pages
...all their verdicts ought to be determined. WJ COURTHOPE. THALES' REASONS FOR LEAVING LONDON. [From / A transient calm the happy scenes bestow And for a...with contemptuous frown Indignant Thales eyes the neighb'ring town. Since worth, he cries, in these degenerate days Wants even the cheap reward of empty... | |
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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... 
