 Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast and freedom on each brow ; How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts...  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 162by Dugald Stewart - 1866 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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...And flies where Britain courts the western spring; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride, And brighter streams than famed Hydaspis glide; There... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1822 - 312 pages
...certainly one of the happiest in our language : — Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ! War in each...each brow, How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! — Fir'd at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...Dull as their lakes that slumber in the storm. Heav'ns ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Hough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast,...each brow ; How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fir'd at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring;... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...VOL. i. 19 Ï46 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY [chap. V. Heavens ! bow unlike their Belgic Sires of old ! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on each brow 5 How much unlike the Sons of Britain now ! — —Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...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 browr, How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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...each brow. How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fir'd at the sound, iny genius spreads her wing. And flies where Britain courts the western spring... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...conform, Dull as their lakes that slumber in the storm. Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! ntle didst invest The rising worldW waters dark and...and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolde ! Fir'd at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...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...And flies where Britain courts the western spring ; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride, And brighter streams than famed Hydaspes glide ; There... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...conform, Dnll as their lakes that slumber in the storm. O ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ; Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each...each brow ; How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fir'd at the sound, tnjr Genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...War in eaeh breast, and freedom on eaeh brow ; — How mueh unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fir'd *#*`/ H/ 0/ eourts the western spring ; Where lawns extend that seorn Areadian pride, And brighter streams than... | |
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