 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 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 fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 sider
...possession." Mr Tennyson's ideal for every country is England, and \/ that is a blunder in politics : " A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent." That is an admirable verse ; but it is nobler to... | |
 | 1879 - 820 sider
...to call it — -which has insured for modern Englishmen the inheritance described by Mr. Tennyson : A land of settled government. A land of just and old...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. But though at one time Bagehot thus defended a highhanded and an outrageous act, his biographer states... | |
 | Teacher - 1879 - 582 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. Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | 1879 - 826 sider
...to call it — which has insured for modern Englishmen the inheritance described by Mr. Tennyson : A land of settled government, A land of just and old...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. But though at one time Bagehot thus defended a highhanded and an outrageous act, his biographer states... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 236 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 fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | 1879 - 524 sider
...sober-enitad Freedom chose, The laud, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing be will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown. Where Freedom broadens slowly down From preceden t to precedent: Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fuiness wrought, The... | |
 | Manuals - 1879 - 68 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 renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly'down From precedent to precedent. Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 290 sider
...— how many strange and terrible events have occurred— ere this England could become what it is, " A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown." TWO POETS OF ROME. "FRERE'S Aristophanes, all four plays, very rare, six pounds ten shillings." Such... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 362 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. Where faction seldom gathers head ; But, by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
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