 | Colburn Mayne - 1862 - 308 str.
...too, that while the rest of Europe is but struggling out of its leading strings, our lot is cast in "A land of settled government, A land of just and...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." " That her fair form may stand and shine, * Make bright our days and light our dreams, Turning to scorn,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1862 - 738 str.
...the old, and hopes of a bright future were leading on the young, aud he thought of his country, as " A land of settled government, A land of just and old...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." At once the poet of progress and of conservatism, he is essentially the representative of the opinions... | |
 | 1862 - 610 str.
...insolence, which at the present moment so astounds the world. Wherein consists liberty unless in that ' girt with friends or foes, A man may speak the thing he will?' And what avails all the nominal freedom of Democracy — the power to choose your own rulers, and to... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 str.
...Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, And languish for the purple seas * It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited...Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1885 - 514 str.
...yawns between it and its author's old deliverances on the same subject. Compare such a stanza as — A land of settled government, A. land of just and...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent, with the banality of Men loud against all forms of power — Unfurnished brows, tempestuous tongues... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1866 - 86 str.
...fire-light, Dance upon the parlour-wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door. 9. It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited...friends or foes, A man may speak the thing he will. IV. 1 . He slew that which he loved, unknowing what he slew. 2 . And, whereas I was black and swart... | |
 | James White - 1866 - 586 str.
...quarrel, nor idle in a just one ; which protects and guards the blessings which the intellect has won. " A land of settled government, A land of just and old...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent; Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness wronght, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 str.
...Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, And languish for the purple seas '•* It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited...Freedom chose, The land where, girt with friends or A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 400 str.
...You ask me, why, though ill at ease, Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited...Freedom chose, The land where, girt with friends or A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where... | |
 | 1867 - 832 str.
...deficient. It was as true then as now, that (as our great laureate sings), It is the land that free men till, That sober-suited freedom chose: The land where...thing he will. A land of settled government, A land of old and just renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. This freedom of... | |
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It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent... 
