 It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent...  The Quarterly Review - Page 540by Anonymous - 1861 - 610 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 252 pages
...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | 1849 - 508 pages
...suited freedom chose, The land where, girt with friends and foes, A man may speak the thing he will : A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, TELESILE. BY JOHN BAKER. WITHIN a hall in Nanci's fortress town, A maiden and a youth together stood... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1898 - 248 pages
...hindered, Britain's development into what she is at present, — the freest country in the world : — A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, "Where freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent. "Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees... | |
 | Edward Stillingfleet Cayley - Europe - 1856 - 328 pages
...sober-suited Freedom chose ; The land where, girt by friends or foes, A man may speak the thing he will. A land of settled government, — A land of just and old renown, Where freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent. TEMNYSOM. " Steady prices are impossible, because,... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...ago. then, undoubtedly, he has much to answer for. But if it is England's great merit that it is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent ' — then we may hope that there might be some candid... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 578 pages
...ago, then, undoubtedly, he has much to answer for. But if it is England's great merit that it is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent ' — then we may hope that there might be some candid... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1859 - 750 pages
...ago, then, undoubtedly, he has much to answer for. But if it is England's great merit that it is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent'— then we may hope that there might be some candid... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1859 - 584 pages
...ago, then, undoubtedly, he has much to answer for. But if it is England's great merit that it is ' A land of set.tled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent ' — then we may hope that there might be some candid... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 674 pages
...in English politics were of anything rather than a Radical character. Where the aristocratic element was a living portion of the state and its maintenance...of France with — " A. land of settled government, Л land of just and old renown, AVIicro freedom broadens slowly down ïioiii precedent to precedent."... | |
 | 1864 - 616 pages
...many strange and terrible events have occurred — ere this England could become what it is, • " A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown." c. Brohni t0 gmwss. A STORY OF ENGLISH DOMESTIC LIFE. BY EDMUND YATES. CHAPTER XXVII. WEAVING THE WEB.... | |
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