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
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 페이지
...sober-suited Freedom chose ; The land whore, 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... | |
| Alexander Laing - 1876 - 632 페이지
...it by the enlightened patriotism of the church. CHAPTER XXII. ECCLESIASTICAL AND MAGISTERIAL RULE. ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. ' And let the change which comes be free To ingroove... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 페이지
...sober-snited 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... | |
| 1876 - 508 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... | |
| Charles Adamson Salmond - 1876 - 102 페이지
...magnanimous laxity," as we can, or think we can, afford to exhibit in our favoured isle :— " This land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." This at least is certain, that, considering the... | |
| Emily Taylor - 1876 - 292 페이지
...sober-seated 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. TENNYSON. CAVALIER AND ROUNDHEAD. Boy. So Sister Ann came to see you while I was away ; you found something... | |
| James Routledge - 1876 - 650 페이지
...not before in human memory, even the oldest — but as Tennyson afterwards truly sang, of " A laud 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... | |
| Thomas Erskine May - 1877 - 582 페이지
...rather than to destroy. 1 In the familiar words of our renowned poet CHAP. laureate, England has been : A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown : Where freedom broadens slowly down, From precedent to precedent. It cannot be denied that democratic opinions have... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 페이지
...Freedom chose ; The land where, girt with friends or foes, A man may speak the 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... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 페이지
...possession." 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 admirable verse ; but it is nobler to make than to follow precedents; and great emotions,... | |
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