 | Donald Davie - 1992 - 336 lehte
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 | C. C. Barfoot - 1992 - 280 lehte
...buys; A land of tyrants and a den of slaves, Here wretches seek dishonourable graves, 310 And calmly bent, to servitude conform, Dull as their lakes that...ungovernably bold; War in each breast and freedom in each brow; 315 How much unlike the sons of Britain now! By now further commentary or annotation... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 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. (b) The Vicar of Wakefield secured friends among every description of readers ; with the old by the... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 lehte
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 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 228 lehte
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 | Dale Hoak, Mordechai Feingold - 1996 - 380 lehte
...man 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 slumber in the storm.™ From the English point of view, of course, this reversal of fortunes was most congenial. By 1740, one... | |
 | Dustin Griffin - 2005 - 332 lehte
...As he mentally arrives in England, Goldsmith invokes the patriotic convention of British supremacy: Fir'd 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 fam'd Hydaspis glide,... | |
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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. 
