| Frederick Marryat - 1832 - 274 pages
...spread her canvass, sailing away from pestilence and death. CHAPTER X. Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep, Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. . . CAMPBELL. THE Windsor Castle ploughed through the vast ocean of waters before a propitious gale,... | |
| Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...of Campbell, which stir the heart " as with a trumpet :" — " Britannia needs no bulwark, !•.,. No towers along the steep;* Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep." Again, some steam-vessel from Boulogne, or Hamburgh, or the Rhine, will sweep by, heaving the wave... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountainwaves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below... | |
| Naval art and science - 1871 - 928 pages
...colonies, and her ships float like enchanted castles along her sea-girt shores, Well might the poet say "Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep, Her march is on the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep." Britain's enterprising sons have steered for India... | |
| James Robinson Planché - 1834 - 410 pages
...her strength, and the decay of which will be the first melancholy signal of her own destruction. " Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep : Her march is on the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep !" CHAPTER XXIII. NATIONAL COSTUME OF SCOTLAND. Scotch... | |
| James Robinson Planché - Clothing and dress - 1834 - 410 pages
...her strength, and the decay of which will be the first melancholy signal of her own destruction. " Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep : Her march is on the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep !" CHAPTER XXIII. NATIONAL COSTUME OF SCOTLAND. Scotch... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1835 - 258 pages
...While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow. III. Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When... | |
| Frederic Shoberl - Flower language - 1835 - 406 pages
...emblem of her naval power — that power of which the first of our living poets proudly says : — Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is on the mountain wave. Her home is on the deep. Though our dusky forests are no longer the haunts of... | |
| Staff - 1835 - 670 pages
...policy—Blackwoofs Magazine for Jijy 1834. II. Extent and Population of Great Britain and her Colonies. " Britannia needs no bulwarks, no towers along the steep, Her march Is on the mountain wave, her home is on the deep." Ihe small domestic and vast transmarine empire of Great... | |
| Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 pages
...blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow. Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When... | |
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