 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of Books and Men ! 15. It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters, unwithstood," Road by which all might come and go that would. And bear out freights of worth to foreign lands ; That... | |
 | Books - 1808 - 872 pages
...of feeling and of thought, and convince us that on worthy subjects this man can write worthily. лл It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...Hath flowed, '' with pomp of waters, unwithstood," Road by which all might come and go that would, And bear out freights of worth to foreign lands ; That... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of Books and MeuJ • XVI. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...dark antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters, unwitlistood," Road by which all might come and go that would, And bear out freights of worth to foreign... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of Books and Men ! XVI. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters, unwithstood ;" Road by which all might come and go that would, And bear out freights of worth to foreign lands... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...life's common way, ID cheerful godliness; and yet thy henrt Tin- luw licKt duties on itself did lay. XV. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...antiquity Hath flowed, with pomp of waters, unwithstood, Road by which all might come and go that would. And bear out freights of worth to foreign lands ; That... | |
 | English periodicals - 1829 - 476 pages
...squadrons furious ride, To conquer or to die 1'' And various sonnets of Mr. Wordsworth ; such as,— " It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom," &c. " Vanguard of Liberty! ye men of Kent, Ye children of a soil that doth advance Its haughty brow... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 402 pages
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road; But equally a want of Books and Men! XVI. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary hands, That this most famous Stream in Bogs and Sands Should perish; and to evil and to good Be lost... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1835 - 304 pages
...squadrons furious ride To conquer or to die," fee. And various sonnets of Mr. Wordsworth; such as— " It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom," &<-, " Vanguard of liberty! ye men of Kent, Ye children of a soil that doth advance Its haughty brow... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1837 - 376 pages
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of books and men ! XVI. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters, unwithstood,' Boused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...But let us daff aside such unfilial fears. In the words of one of Wordsworth's noble sonnets — " It is not to be thought of, that the flood Of British freedom, which to the open aea Of the world's praise from dark antiquity Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters, unwithstood ;' Road... | |
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Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands — That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old... 
