 This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This...  Observations upon the town of Cromer ... as a watering place, and ... its ... - Page 27by Edmund Bartell - 1806Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pages
...doth choke the feeder : Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise ; This fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection8,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 508 pages
...doth choke the feeder: Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. This royal throne of kings , this scepter'd isle , This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden , demi-paradise ; This fortress , built by nature for herself, Against infection... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...sect in the common danger of his country, might the young poet thus apostrophize this country ! — " This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise ; This fortress, built by Nature for herself. Against infestion... | |
 | 1847 - 586 pages
...contains, perhaps, more variety of harmonious and lofty diction than any of his compositions :— ' This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress, built by Nature for herself, Against infection,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 506 pages
...best of our ancestors. Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise ; This fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...doth choke the feeder : Light vanity, insatiate cormorant. Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. ter WARWICK. Now, where is he that will not stay so long, Till his friend sicknes of Mare, This other Eden, demi-paradise ; This fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection,... | |
 | 1849 - 652 pages
...passages of equal beauty might be pointed out. John of Gauut's noble description of England: — " This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle. This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars," &c. &c. and that fine image : — " For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 398 pages
...and a respect for all those fundamental institutions of social life, which bind men together : — This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise ; This fortress, built by nature for herself, . Against infection,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 132 pages
...choke the feeder : Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise ; This fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 236 pages
...ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. OLD ENGLAND. " Thii royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi- paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war — This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious... | |
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