 It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent...  The Edinburgh Review - Side 5291852Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1859 - 650 sider
...ago. then, undoubtedly, he has much to answer for. But if it is England's great merit that it is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent ' — then we may hope that there might be some candid... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 sider
...ago, then, undoubtedly, he has much to answer for. But if it is England's great merit that it is ' A land of set.tled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent ' — then we may hope that there might be some candid... | |
 | 1860 - 444 sider
...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land where, girt with friends or foes, A man may speak the thing he will. " A land of settled government, A land of just and old...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." Hence he glories in his great position as a modern citizen in such a land, and sings :— " Of old... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 sider
...story of a free people and of a land of liberty ! Yet how different ! For the Land they told of was "A land of settled government, "A land of just and...broadens slowly down "From precedent to precedent. "Where faction seldom gathers head, "But, by degrees to fulness wrought, "The strength of some diifusive... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1860 - 404 sider
...Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will; A laud of settled government, A land of just and old renown,...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent: Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | 1860 - 544 sider
...keeping inviolate, uu exemplar to the wide world, this England as " A land of settled government, A laud of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down, From precedent to precedent." 2S1 A "NICE" ARTICLE. BY EDWIN GOADBY. Mr young friend, Tom Brown, is a thorough and original study.... | |
 | 1860 - 880 sider
...friends or foes, A man may speak the thing he will. " A land of settled government, A land of jnst and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." Hence lie glories in his great position as a modern citizen in such a land, and sings : — " Of old... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 sider
...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land where, girt with friends or foes. A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old...Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 sider
...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land where, girt with friends or foes. A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old...Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | William Tallack - 1861 - 326 sider
...the inevitable changes of successive years. Thus has Britain become, under the Divine blessing — " A land of settled government, A land of just and old...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. " Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
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