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 253by Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 509 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1789 - 416 pages
...the storm. Heavens ' how unlike their Belgic sires of old I Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...the storm. Heav'ns ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old I Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold; War in each breast, and freedom on 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;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...the storm. Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old j Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on each brow.... How much unlike the sons of Btitain now ! Fir'd at the sound, my genitts spreads her whig, And flies where Britain courts (he western... | |
 | 1803 - 1052 pages
...actually raising his Hanoverian subjectsto tight against him and his subjects in Britain 1 " Fir'd at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, "" And flies where Britain com U the western spring; " Where lawns eireod that scorn Arcadian pride, _ " And brighter nucairis... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...the storm. Heavens ! how unlike their Belgick sires of old! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on each brow ; How...And flies where Britain courts the western spring ; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride, And brighter streams than famed Hydaspis glide ; There... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...the storm. Heav'ns ! 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 ! Fir'd at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...the storm. Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Hough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on 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... | |
 | J. C. - 1806 - 156 pages
...residence, charmingly embosomed with wood, and close by the murmuring of a fine and meandering river. Fir'd at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring ; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride, And brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspis glide ; There... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1808 - 496 pages
...extraordinaires, qui (i) Heav'ns! how unlite 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 ! • — Firedat the sound, my Genius spreads her 'vviug, And ilics, wereBritain courts the western... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 324 pages
...the storm. 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 ! Fir'd at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where BRITAIN courts the western spring... | |
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