 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...friends for whom in love we smart, And fill with pious awe and joy-miit wo the heart. Role Britannia. n honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise. The odes of Coleridge are highly passionate a laud, And guardian angels sung the strain : Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the wave» ! Britons never... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...thy future care ; All other blessings I resign. Make but the dear Amanda mine. RULE, BRITANNIA ! WHEK Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose, from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves, Britons never will... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...precious ; to the foot Treacherous and false ; it smiled, and it was cold. Cowper. RULE BRITANNIA.3 WHEN Britain first at Heaven's command, Arose from...This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sang this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves, Britons never will be slaves ! " The nations... | |
 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1845 - 444 pages
...the pride of France — that foe professed To England and to Freedom. In this Masque is the Ode, " When Britain first at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main," &c. The last lines of the poem are, " Vain are their threats, their armies all are vain, They rule... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1907 - 508 pages
...Psalm versified (HH, I, 235) von Thomsons Rule Britannia (in Masque of Alfred, 1740) beeinflufst sein: When Britain first, at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main. Nachträge zn Young. 1) In Youngs moralisierendem Stil ist New Year's Day (HH, IT, 64) geschrieben.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...and the words cannot be read without exciting an elevated feeling of national pride. RULE, BEITANKIA. When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from...land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves!" The nations not so blest as thee, Must, in... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...You may have forgot you were drunk when you died." RULE BRITANNIA. Music — at ZT Purday's, Holborn. WHEN Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from...land, And guardian angels sung this strain: — " Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves : Britons never will be slaves." The nations not so blest as thee... | |
 | Ballad, Irish - 1848 - 210 pages
...Constitution, Success to true Orangemen, God save the King-! ifatl* Britannia, When Britain first at Heav'n's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And Guardian Angels sung the strain : Kule, Britannia — Britannia, rule the waves, Britons never shall be slaves. The nations... | |
 | Charles Dibdin - Ballads, English - 1850 - 424 pages
...word ! and God defend the right! RULE BRITANNIA. [Written by James Thomsom. Composed by Dr. Arne.] WHEN Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from...land, And guardian angels sung this strain : — Rule, BRITANNIA! Britannia rule the waves! Britons never shall be slaves ! The nations not so bless'd as... | |
 | Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1850 - 80 pages
...Chorus. WHM DTJTHIE. JP CHEERY. WH BABKER. f. MC'CORMIOK. J. MASON. PP OTTLD. WW RAVENHILL. PB DE CHAIR. When Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from...This was the Charter of the land, And guardian Angels sang the strain ; Rule Britannia I rule the waves, For Britons never shall be slaves. (and following... | |
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When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves! 
