 | J.-L. van Aelbroeck - 1830 - 458 lehte
...fois des atteintes mortelles; et à chacun de ces coups, l'agriculture est tombée en langueur. (i) Their Belgic sires of old , Rough , poor, content...ungovernably bold ; War in each breast , and freedom in each brow. GOLDSMITB. (2) Mémoires sur les questions proposées par l'Académie de Bruxelles, en... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 lehte
...unlike their Belgic fires of old ! 230 Rough, poor, content, ungovernably hold ; War in each breast, & freedom on each brow ; How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! BRITAIN. Fir'd at the sound, my genius spreads hr: wing, [spring ; 2cX3 And flies, where Britain... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1835 - 312 lehte
...suggested by the accidental mention of a word ; and is certainly one of the happiest in our language : — Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Rough,...bold ! War in each breast, and freedom on each brow, HOT; much unlike the sons of Britain now ! — Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 lehte
...quoted above, that we feel persuaded we shall consult the taste of the reader by inserting them. " Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride, And brighter streams than famed Hvdaspes glide... | |
 | 1837 - 756 lehte
...To kinder skies, where gentler mankind reign I torn, and France displays her light domain. Heavens I how unlike their Belgic sires of old, Rough, poor,...her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring, &c. Goldsmith has been as little indebted to other poets for his images as for his expressions... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 lehte
...tyrants, and a den of slaves, Here wretches seek dishonourable graves, And, calmly bent, to/servitude s designs, by sending my son to old Mr. Wilmot's with...My son went in pursuance of my directions, and in ! Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring;... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1837 - 312 lehte
...suggested by the accidental mention of a word ; and is certainly one of the happiest in our language : — Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Rough,...each brow, How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! — Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring.... | |
 | 1837 - 728 lehte
...Goldsmith. 233 To kinder skies, where gentler mankind reign I turn, and France displays her light domain. Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old, Rough,...breast, and freedom on each brow, How much unlike the >on» of Britain rune. Fir'd at the sound, iny genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 lehte
...with the view, and like his horizon still flies before him," &c. Again in speaking of the Dutch — " Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old, Rough,...bold ; War in each breast and freedom on each brow." In the manuscript introduction to the History of the War, he concludes a passage on the supposed degeneracy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 lehte
...buys ; A land of tyrants, and a den of slaves, Here wretches seek dishonourable graves, And calmly bent, to servitude conform, Dull as their lakes that...storm. Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! W Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on each brow ; — HOW... | |
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And calmly bent, to servitude conform, Dull as their lakes that slumber in the storm. Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on each brow. 
