 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 382 pages
...suggested by the accidental mention of a word ; and is certainly one of the happiest in our language. 5' Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic Sires of old ! Rough,...each brow; How much unlike the Sons of Britain now ! — —Fired at the sound, my Genius spreads her wing. And flies, where Britain courts the western... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...buys ; A land of tyrants, and a den of slaves, Here wretches seek dishonourable graves, And, calmly bent, to servitude conform, Dull as their lakes that slumber in the storm. Heav'ns! how unlike their Belgic sires of old! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1822 - 312 pages
...suggested by the accidental mention of a word ; and is certainly one of the happiest in our language : — Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Rough,...her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring. 221. This bias of the mind for contrast, in its association of ideas, is likewise eminently... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 296 pages
...buys; A land of tyrants, and a den of slaves, Here wretches seek dishonourable graves; And, calmly bent, to servitude conform, Dull as their lakes that...each brow; How much unlike the sons of Britain now! Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...buys ; A land of tyrants, and a den of slaves, Here wretches seek dishonourable graves, And, calmly bent, to servitude conform, Dull as their lakes that...ungovernably bold; War in each breast, and freedom on each browr, How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1822 - 572 pages
...of the happiest in our language. VOL. i. 19 Ï46 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY [chap. V. Heavens ! bow unlike their Belgic Sires of old ! Rough, poor, content,...bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on each brow 5 How much unlike the Sons of Britain now ! — —Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...bold; War in each breast, and freedom on each brow; How much unlike the sons of Britain now! Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride, And brighter streams than famed Hydaspis glide;... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...buys ; A land of tyrants, and a den of slaves, Here wretches seek dishonourable graves, And calmly bent, to servitude conform, Dull as their lakes that slumber in the storm. Heav'ns ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Hough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...buys ; A land of tyrants, and n den of slaves; Here wretches seek dishonourable graves, And calmly d. Nor thence partakes Fresh pleasure only : for spring; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride, And brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspis glide.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...buyt : A land of tyrants, and a den of slaves, Here wretches seek dishonourable graves, And calmly bent, to servitude conform. Dull as their lakes that...unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fir'd at the sound, iny genius spreads her wing. And flies where Britain courts the western spring ; Where lawns extend... | |
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And calmly bent, to servitude conform, Dull as their lakes that slumber in the storm. Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on each brow. 
