 | Winston Churchill - Biography & Autobiography - 1948 - 782 pages
...the reader (if he needs any) I reprint them here: The nations not so blest as thee Must in their turn to tyrants fall: While thou shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them alL The Muses still, with freedom found, Shall to thy happy coasts repair; Blest isle, with matchless beauty... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - History - 2000 - 358 pages
...reference home, as it were, by claiming that Britain is blessed with the absence of domestic tyranny: The nations, not so blest as thee, Must in their turns...free, The dread and envy of them all. "Rule," &c. (lines 7-11) Britain's constitutional monarchy ensures national freedom and enables international strength,... | |
 | Andrew Prescott, Elizabeth M. Hallam - History - 1999 - 204 pages
...*•T5***. •* The Nations, not £o bleft as thee, Muft,in their Turns,to Tyrants fall : While thou Aalt flourish great and free, The Dread and Envy of them all, Rule ^f, c . Still more rnajeitic .(halt thou riie, More dreadful from each foreign Stroke: As the loud... | |
 | Roy Porter - History - 2000 - 772 pages
...became the bombast of the Scot James Thomson: The nations, not so blest as thee, Must in their turn to tyrants fall; While thou shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. 'Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.'88 At the drop of a hat, it seems, natives... | |
 | Jeffrey Richards - History - 2001 - 548 pages
...was the charter of the land, And guardian Angels sung this strain: 'Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.' The nations, not so...great and free, The dread and envy of them all. 'Rule/ etc. Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful, from each foreign stroke: As the loud blast... | |
 | Colin Jones, Dror Wahrman - History - 2002 - 326 pages
...of war. Sailors jump ashore and begin to sing a specially revised version of Arne's Rule Britannia: The nations, not so blest as thee, Must in their turns...flourish great and free The dread and envy of them all The Muses still, with freedom found Shall to thy happy coasts repair, Blest isle, with matchless beauty... | |
 | Jeffrey Richards - History - 2001 - 552 pages
...slaves.' The nations, not so blest as thee, Must in their turns, to tyrants fall: While thou shall flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. 'Rule,' etc. Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful, from each foreign stroke: As the loud blast... | |
 | Kathleen Wilson - England - 2003 - 312 pages
...prospect, merchant ships and men-of-war. Sailors jump ashore and begin to sing Arne's Ride Britannia: The nations, not so blest as thee, Must in their turns...flourish great and free The dread and envy of them all. The Muses still, with freedom found Shall to thy happy coasts repair, Blest isle, with matchless beauty... | |
 | George Courtauld - History - 2005 - 76 pages
...never shall be slaves.' The nations, not so blest as thee, Must in their turns to tyrants fall, Whilst thou shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. Rule, Britannia! etc. Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke, As the... | |
 | 246 pages
...Must, in their turns to tyrants fall; Must, in their turns to tyrants fall; While thou shalt flourish, shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves. Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. The main alliances,... | |
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Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. 
