 And that true North, whereof we lately heard A strain to shame us "keep you to yourselves; So loyal is too costly! friends - your love Is but a burthen: loose the bond, and go." Is this the tone of empire? here the faith That made us rulers? this, indeed,...  Provincial Letters: And Other Papers - Page 222by Henry Charles Beeching - 1906 - 342 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1898 - 248 pages
...lately heard A strain to shame us — " Keep you to yourselves So loyal is too costly ! friends, your love Is but a burthen ; loose the bond, and go —...faith That made us rulers ? this, indeed, her voice . . . The voice of Britain, or a sinking land Some third-rate isle -half lost among her seas ? The... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1897 - 876 pages
...it so emphatic expression : — ' Keep you to yourselves ; So loyal is too costly ! friends— your love Is but a burthen : loose the bond and go.' Is...this, indeed, her voice And meaning, whom the roar of Hougonmont Left mightiest of all peoples under heaven ? What shock has fool'd her since, that she should... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1874 - 674 pages
...outbursts of patriotism which seem to me so characteristic of him, — " Is this the tone of empire P tlis the faith That made us rulers ? this, indeed, her...mightiest of all peoples under heaven ? What shock has fooled her since, that she should speak So feebly ? wealthier — wealthier — hour by hour! The voice... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 340 pages
...lately heard A strain to shame us ' keep you to yourselves ; So loyal is too costly ! friends — your love Is but a burthen : loose the bond, and go.' Is...fool'd her since, that she should speak So feebly ? wealthier — wealthier — hour by hour ! The voice of Britain, or a sinking land, Some third-rate... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 528 pages
...lately heard A strain to shame us " keep you to yourselves ; So loyal is too costly! friends — your love Is but a burthen : loose the bond, and go." Is...fool'd her since, that she should speak So feebly ? wealthier — wealthier — hour by hour ! The voice of Britain, or a sinking land, Some third-rate... | |
 | 1873 - 740 pages
...lately heard A strain to shame us, " Keep you to yourselves ; So loyal is too costly ! friends — your love Is but a burthen : loose the bond, and go." Is...this, indeed, her voice And meaning, whom the roar of Hongoumont Left mightiest of all peoples under heaven ? What shock has fool'd her since, that she should... | |
 | Gilbert Malcolm Sproat - Canada - 1873 - 40 pages
...COLUMBIA. " And that true North, whereof we lately heard A strain to shame us: ' Keep you to yourselves; So loyal is too costly! friends—your love Is but...loose the bond, and go.* Is this the tone of empire ? * * * * * * * * * * * The loyal to their crown Are loyal to their own far sons, who love Our ocean-empire... | |
 | 1874 - 864 pages
...costly ! Friends, your love Is but a burthon: loose th? bond and go.' Is tliis the tone of Kmpire ? here the faith That made us rulers? This, indeed, her voice And meaning, whom the roar of Ilougouinont Left mightiest of all peoples under Heaven ? What shock has fooled her since, that she... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...lately heard A strain to shame us " keep you to yourselves ; So loyal is too costly ! friends — your love Is but a burthen : loose the bond, and go. "...her voice And meaning, -whom the roar of Hougoumont Leftmightiest of all peoplesunderheaven ? What shock has fool'd her since, that she should speak So... | |
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