 | Linda Colley - 2005 - 452 pages
...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'. 1 I AMES THOMSON'S WORDS HAVE BECOME so familiar F since they were composed in 1740, have been roared... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels k M 闶 g ǀ 0 b ꄀ @ 烬 ƀ 0 h 11724 The Castle of Indolence A little round, fat, oily man of God. 1 1725 'Epitaph on Solomon Mendez'... | |
 | Richard Webster - 1998 - 372 pages
...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. " William Shakespeare (1564-1616) frequently mentioned angels in his plays and sonnets. In Hamlet (l.iv.39),... | |
 | Eve Darian-Smith - 1999 - 292 pages
...command, Arose out from the azure main, This was the character of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain: Rule, Britannia! Rule the waves! Britons never...slaves! The nations not so blest as thee, Must in their turn to tyrants fall; Whilst thou shall flourish, great and free, The dread and envy of them all. The... | |
 | David Armitage - 2000 - 264 pages
...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'.' It is now an historiographical commonplace that the 173os and early 174os marked a watershed in the... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 pages
...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."2 Britain's heavenly origins are enunciated via an odd (but representative) yoking of divine... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2001 - 306 pages
...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.138 Rather than speak with pride of the accomplishments of his country, Newton pointed out that... | |
 | Jeffrey Richards - 2001 - 548 pages
...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;...thee, Must in their turns, to tyrants fall: While thou shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. 'Rule/ etc. Still more majestic shalt... | |
 | Colin Jones, Dror Wahrman - 2002 - 326 pages
...of war. Sailors jump ashore and begin to sing a specially revised version of Arne's Rule Britannia: The nations, not so blest as thee, Must in their turns to tyrants fall, While thou shalt flourish great and free The dread and envy of them all The Muses still, with freedom found Shall... | |
 | Kathleen Wilson - 2003 - 312 pages
...prospect, merchant ships and men-of-war. Sailors jump ashore and begin to sing Arne's Ride Britannia: The nations, not so blest as thee, Must in their turns to tyrants fall, While thou shalt flourish great and free The dread and envy of them all. The Muses still, with freedom found Shall... | |
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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! 
