 | Clark Sutherland Northup, Martin Wright Sampson, William Strunk, Frank Thilly - 1910 - 546 lehte
...adores; and that while others may build domes and paint divinely and teach the rocks to live in statues, "Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state. Here speaks the young diplomatist and statesman. This point of view must be borne in mind throughout... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1914 - 540 lehte
...domes delight ; A nicer touch to the stretcht canvas give, Or teach their animated rocks to live : 145 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours' pray'r. The... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 lehte
...preserved the smaller states of Holland and Germany. As Addison then wrote, at least half truthfully: 'T is Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state : To threaten bold, presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbors' prayer.1... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 lehte
...preserved the smaller states of Holland and Germany. As Addison then wrote, at least half truthfully: 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state : To threaten bold, presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbors' prayer.1... | |
 | Malcolm Miles Kelsall - 1987 - 234 lehte
...on the Boyne and then brought peace to Europe byhumblingFrance(Gaul)andrestoringthebalanceofpower: 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold, presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer.... | |
 | Marcia R. Pointon - 1997 - 468 lehte
...connoisseur. Although Addison concludes his 'Letter from Italy' written in 1701 with the declaration that 'T'is Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate. And hold in balance each contending state', his own seduction by Italian art is frankly charted: From theme to theme with secret pleasure... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 lehte
...aspiring domes delight; A nicer touch to the stretched canvas give, Or teach their animated rocks to live: 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours' pray'r. (lines... | |
 | Katrin Callsen - 2004 - 204 lehte
...Gedicht von seiner Italienreise, in dem liberty die europäische Vormachtstellung Britanniens begründet: „'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending stau-, To threaten bold, presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbour's prayer."... | |
 | Martin Myrone - 2005 - 408 lehte
...aspiring domes delight; A nicer touch to the stretcht canvas give, Or teach their animated rocks to live: 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours' pray'r."... | |
 | 1856 - 634 lehte
..."whose sense" his lordship had the good taste to pronounce " better than their poetry " ; — " 'T is Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold, presumptuous kings with war, And answer each afflicted neighbor's prayer."... | |
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Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r. 
