 | Ernest Adams - English language - 1868 - 120 pages
...223. When a sentence consists of two or more connected statements, each statement is termed a Clause : When [Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from...was the charter of the land,] And [guardian angels sung this strain :] [Rule, Britannia,] [rule the waves:] [Britons never will be slaves.] Noun Clause.... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...read Selima. Page 23, for Casibianca, read Casabianca. THE YOUNG ENGLISHMAN'S FIRST POETRY BOOK. 1.— RULE BRITANNIA. WHEN Britain first at Heaven's command,...Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain: Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Britons never... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...your hand ! But now and then I cheat the throng ; • You every day, and all day long.' John Gay. CXL RULE BRITANNIA. When Britain first at Heaven's command...Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain : Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! 5 Britons... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...edition, to " O Sophonisba ! I am wholly thine." 312 Dyer. — Wesley. — Dodslcy. [Thomson continued. When Britain first, at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain : Rule Britannia ! Britannia rules the waves ! Britons... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...soul Beneath the spacious temple of the sky, In adoration join ; and ardent raise One general song ! RULE, BRITANNIA. WHEN Britain first, at Heaven's command,...This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : Rule, Britannia ! rule the waves ; Britons never will be slaves. The nations not... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...alone, Aid the full concert ; while the stockdove breathes A melancholy murmur through the whole. 40 Rule Britannia. When Britain first, at Heaven's command,...This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : ' Rule, Britannia, rule the waves ; Britons never will be slaves.' 2. The nations,... | |
 | Museum and English journal of education - 1869 - 496 pages
...the southern continent of the New World. It is thus no mere poetic fiction which speaks of the time " When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main," but a scientific truth ; and the force which heaved it from its ocean bed is the same which buried... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive silence, muse His praise. W RULE BRITANNIA. /. / HEN Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain : Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Britons... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...language was his mother tongue. And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own. WILLIAM COWPEREULE ant sing the strain : Rule Britannia ! Britannia rules the waves ! Britons never will be slaves. The nations... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1872 - 198 pages
...laugh, and dance and sing; Quickly, quickly come away, For it is a pleasant day. — LITTLE SONGS. RULE, BRITANNIA. WHEN Britain first, at Heaven's command,...sang this strain — Rule, Britannia ! Britannia, rule the waves, Britons never shall be slaves. The nations not so blest as thee* Shall in their turn... | |
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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. 
