 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 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... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1852 - 372 pages
...the mighty statistical truth conveyed in the noble words of Campbell : " Britannia needs no bastions, no towers along the steep, Her march is o'er the mountain waves, her home is on the deep." 'Perhaps the circumstance that Handel wrote his magnificent Jubilate ia order to celebrate the ratification... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...While the stormy tempests blow ; While the battle rages long and loud, And the stormy tempests blow. Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep...is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep ; (1) Blake — a celebrated English Admiral in the time of Cromwell. He defeated the Dutch fleet at... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...While the stormy tempests blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests, blow. Britannia needs no bulwarks — No towers along the...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 the... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do 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 the... | |
 | James Torrington Spencer Lidstone - Boston (Mass.) - 1853 - 76 pages
...country's by the shore, Of Classic floods renown'd in days of yore. HON. MR. GRATTAN, BRITISH CONSUL. " Britannia needs no bulwarks, No Towers along the steep, Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep." — Tins. CAMPBELL. M Fortune Fortuned the living notes of Rome, And... | |
 | 1853 - 428 pages
...how liable to assault and how defenceless we were. We have been shouting for forty years past — " Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep, Her march is o'er the mountain-waves^ Her homo is on the deep ; " and God has been making us feel that this has been part... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 pages
...the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. in. Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep...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 the... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...blow ; While the battle ragee 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... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1854 - 692 pages
...truth, conveyed in the noble words of Campbell:— " Britannia needs no bastions, no towers along tie steep, Her march is o'er the mountain waves, her home is on the deep." Surely it was far wiser to maintain an irresistible navy 1 to sweep pirates from the face of the British... | |
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Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. 
