It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent... Parliamentary Debates - 5334 페이지저자: Australia. Parliament - 1904전체보기 - 도서 정보
| 1869 - 654 페이지
...begins 'Love thou thy land with love far-brought;' and that which contains the well-known stanza: — 'A land of settled government, A land of just and...slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent!' And there is a remarkable though rough vigour iu the 'Ode on the Charge of the Light Brigade." It might... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 페이지
...sober-suited Freedom chose; the land, where girt with friends or foes a man may speak the thing he will; a land of settled government, a land of just and old renown, where freedom broadens slowly down from precedent to precedent: where faction seldom gathers head, but by degrees... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 페이지
...sober-suited Freedom chose. The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 538 페이지
...the words of our poet laureate, language not more poetical than true, our country is hailed as — " A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." In this respect, England differs from almost every... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 180 페이지
...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees... | |
| Dublin city, roy. coll. of sci - 1875 - 358 페이지
...expression. Mr. Tennyson's ideal for every country is England, and that is a blunder in politics : — " A land of settled government, A land of just and old...slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent. " That is an excellent verse; but it is nobler to make than to follow precedents, and great emotions... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 페이지
...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees... | |
| 1875 - 620 페이지
...Freedom chose, The land where, girt with friends or foes, A man may speak tho thing he will ; A laud of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees... | |
| James Routledge - 1876 - 680 페이지
...they could not before in human memory, even the oldest — but as Tennyson afterwards truly sang, of " A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." The idea might have been a pure fiction. Many of... | |
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