 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
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious surge Of wat'ry Neptune, is bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself." The character of Bolingbroke, afterwards Henry IV., is drawn with a masterly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious surge Of wat'ry Neptune, is bound in with sbame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself." The character of Bolingbroke, afterwards Henry IV., is drawn with a masterly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siegt Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bo&Js; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself: O, would... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots,1 and rotten parchment bonds;* That 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 - 1823 - 984 pages
...England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery non, he is some kin to thee, Thou spend'st such high-day...i SuklUOom. 192 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. 193 \Excun shameful conquest of itself : O, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, .^nd rotten parchment bonds ; That 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, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 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. GRIEF. Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, Which show like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...with the triumphant sea, * Paltry. VOL. V. D 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 - 1824 - 370 pages
...England, bemud 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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of wat'ry Neptune, is bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment...England that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Our sea-walled garden, the whole land, Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers... | |
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