Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious NotesPrinted at the Dumfries & Galloway courier office, 1822 - Всего страниц: 283 |
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... plain . While Johnny , ne'er of fighting shy , A broadside instantly let fly ; When , quick as any bolt of thunder , He clove the Spaniard's skull asunder . MORAL . O happy Britons ! happy isle Courage innate in thee doth dwell : But ...
... plain . While Johnny , ne'er of fighting shy , A broadside instantly let fly ; When , quick as any bolt of thunder , He clove the Spaniard's skull asunder . MORAL . O happy Britons ! happy isle Courage innate in thee doth dwell : But ...
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... plain Honesty's garb , Is the sweetest composer of strife . Not under a mitre thou'rt real , Nor beneath a plain presbyter's garb , Nor yet in sectarian zeal , Nor infidels ' principles hard . The Church is in danger , he cries ; The ...
... plain Honesty's garb , Is the sweetest composer of strife . Not under a mitre thou'rt real , Nor beneath a plain presbyter's garb , Nor yet in sectarian zeal , Nor infidels ' principles hard . The Church is in danger , he cries ; The ...
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... plains , and woods , and hills , and sky , Resound with GEORGE's Jubilee ! Thy glorious , long - protracted reign , Full of eventful deeds has been ; No tyranny , that baneful thing , E'er stain'd the 54 On his late Majesty's Jubilee,
... plains , and woods , and hills , and sky , Resound with GEORGE's Jubilee ! Thy glorious , long - protracted reign , Full of eventful deeds has been ; No tyranny , that baneful thing , E'er stain'd the 54 On his late Majesty's Jubilee,
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... plain , For great events will shortly happen there- The Gallic host's in motion front and rear . Through evening clouds we onward steer our course , Still hoping good , but still afraid for worse ; Each meteor gleam , and each obtruding ...
... plain , For great events will shortly happen there- The Gallic host's in motion front and rear . Through evening clouds we onward steer our course , Still hoping good , but still afraid for worse ; Each meteor gleam , and each obtruding ...
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... plain . What can the nervous British arm resist , When lifted in the cause of the oppress'd ! Each soldier is a hero in the cause Of Liberty , Religion , wholesome Laws ! Their massive columns dark do next advance , Still to prolong the ...
... plain . What can the nervous British arm resist , When lifted in the cause of the oppress'd ! Each soldier is a hero in the cause Of Liberty , Religion , wholesome Laws ! Their massive columns dark do next advance , Still to prolong the ...
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Стр. 282 - Others of less note followed the infamous example. On their combined evidence several of the conspirators were seized, condemned, and executed. Among these, the most distinguished were Russell and Sidney. Both died with the intrepidity of men who had resolved to hazard their lives in the field, in order to break the fetters of slavery, and rescue themselves and their fellow-subjects from an ignominious despotism.