This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious... The Complete Art of Poetry ... - Page 330by Charles Gildon - 1718Full view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...England, bound in with the triumphant tea, Whoss rocky shore beats back the envious surge Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. " From this foul and traitorous traffic our borough-monger sovereigns derive an immense revenue, cruelly... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1810 - 692 pages
...England, bound in with the trium[phant sea. Whose rocky shore beats back the [angry surge Of watery Neptune, is now bound [in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchfinent bonds. From this foul and traitorous traffic our borough-monger sovereigns derive an immense... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 534 pages
...England, bound in with the trinmphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots,...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself: O, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing... | |
| English poetry - 1811 - 1054 pages
...England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beat» back the eimous surge Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds.' " From this foul and traitorous traffic our borough-monger sovereigns derive an immense revenue, cruelly... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pages
...England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots,...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself : O, would the scandal vanish with my life,. How happy then were my ensuing... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1813 - 476 pages
...England, bound in with the trinmphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious «iege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots,...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself: O, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1813 - 942 pages
...Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, it now bound in with shame, With laky blots, and rotten parchment bonds ; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself: 0. voald the scandal vanish with my lift?, !to» bapp) then were my ensuing... | |
| Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...The passage is then sufficiently correct. B. Gaunt. England, bound in with tire triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watry...shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds; With inky blots,} 1 suspect that our author wrote — inky bolts. How can blots bind in any thing?... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...rocky shore beats back the envious surge Of wat'ry Neptune, is bound "in with shame, ' With inky-blots and rotten parchment bonds. That England, that was wont to conquer others, r Hath made a shameful conquest of itself." The character of Bolingbroke, afterwards Henry IV. is drawn... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 424 pages
...England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots,...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself: O, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing... | |
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