 | Arthur Compton Auchmuty - 1882 - 170 pages
...yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. WORDSWORTH. XXXIV. THE HERITAGE OF ENGLISHMEN. IT is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flow'd, " with pomp of waters unwithstood," — Road by which all might come and go that would, And... | |
 | Arthur Compton Auchmuty - 1882 - 172 pages
...yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. WORDSWORTH. XXXIV. THE HERITAGE OF ENGLISHMEN. IT is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flow'd, " with pomp of waters unwithstood," — Road by which all might come and go that would, And... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 384 pages
...inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. < H T is not to be thought of that the Flood oOf British freedom, which, to the open sea Of the world's...antiquity Hath flowed, 'with pomp of waters, unwithstood' — Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, — ie That... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...from Gaul. If the attack was fierce, the resistance was heroic, and marks the rising pulse in that flood 'Of British freedom which, to the open sea Of...world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed.' While the Roman standard-bearer leaped into the waves, and bade his hesitating comrades follow, the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1882 - 422 pages
...equally a want of books and men ! IT IS NOT TO BE THOUGHT OF THAT THE FLOOD. Comp. Sept. 1802. Pub. 1807. It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea 1 1s20. on itself did lay. 1so;. I Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1882 - 520 pages
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road : But equally a want of books and men L, XVI. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which, to th« open sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, "with pomp of waters, unwithstood,"... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 388 pages
...fairy tales see subsequent notes. p. 6, 1. 22. in whose halls. From Wordsworth's sonnet beginning, It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom. p. 6, 1. 37. noquo enim debet., etc. "For the fact that a writer is living should not hinder the success... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1916 - 674 pages
...peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.' Yet, in spite of all, ' It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...antiquity, Hath flowed, with pomp of waters unwithstood — Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands — That this... | |
 | John Rylands Library - 1917 - 556 pages
...stands, by its soul, for something indestructible in the world's history, in the life of humanity. It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...the world's praise from dark antiquity Hath flowed, . . . should perish, and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our Halls is hung Armoury of the... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...ballads . . . which form a fining background for Wordsworth's smug and sonorous patriotic sonnets: It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...antiquity Hath flowed, "with pomp of waters, unwithstood," . . . "Not to be thought of; and yet, at this very time, freedom of the press, of public meeting, of... | |
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Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old... 
