 | 1856 - 586 pages
...political opinions : — " God bless the King— I mean our faith's defender ! God bless (no harm tn blessing) the Pretender ! But who Pretender Is, or who is King — God bicss us ill !— that's quite another thing." Domestic habits and local usages did not fail to improve... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...everybody knows by heart, and almost nobody knows to be Byrom's : " God bless the King ! I mean our faith's defender ; God bless — no harm in blessing...— God bless us all ! that's quite another thing !" In the highest sense of the word, Dr. Byrom improves on acquaintance ; he becomes more serious and... | |
 | 1857 - 602 pages
...everybody knows by heart, and almost nobody knows to be Byrom'8 : " God bless the King ! I mean our faith's defender ; God bless — no harm in blessing...— God bless us all ! that's quite another thing 1" In the highest sense of the word, Dr. Byrom improves on acquaintance ; he becomes more serious and... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1857 - 536 pages
...question. From the following epigram, it would seem that Byrom had beeu at one time a Jacobite : " God bless the king— I mean the faith's defender ; God bless — no harm in blessins — the Pretender ; But who pretender is. or who the kins — God bless us all — is quite... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1858 - 300 pages
...called "the Pretender," they toasted him in the well-known verses : — God bless the king; God bless the Faith's Defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender. But which is the Pretender ; which the king ? God bless us all, — that's quite a different thing. It... | |
 | John Reilly (of Manchester.) - 1859 - 368 pages
...impronitu made on such an occasion by Dr. Byrom is well known: — 1 God bless the King — I mean our faith's defender-! God bless (no harm in blessing)...— God bless us all — that's quite another thing !• When transportation and execution and massacre had completed their work, and when the towns of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 878 pages
...English. Every one knows his Jacobite verses on the King and Pretender : God bless the King, God bless our faith's defender, . God bless— no harm in blessing — the Pretender ; But who Pretender is, and who is King, God bless us all ! that's quite another thing. Almost as good are the lines on Handel... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1865 - 232 pages
...F for fig, I for jig, And N for knucklebones, I for John the waterman, And S for sack of stones. " God bless the king ! I mean the faith's defender ; God bless — no harm in blessing -the pretender ; Who that pretender is, and who is king, God bless us all ! That's quite another thing." Old Jacobite... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1865 - 930 pages
...at the time of the disputed succession, when the toast of Oxford was — " God bless the King, tho Faith's Defender ! God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender ! But who Pretender is, and who is King, God bless my soul ! that's quite another thing '." — well at that period, when if... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1866 - 468 pages
...a place afterwards known as the Palace Inn, in Market Street, • God bless the King— I mean our faith's Defender ! God bless (no harm in blessing)...God bless us all! — that's quite another thing.' The Jacobites were followed by the Tories in the direction of Manchester affairs. No great difficulties... | |
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God bless the King ! — I mean the faith's defender — God bless (no harm in blessing !) the Pretender ! But who Pretender is, or who is King — God bless us all ! — that's quite another thing. 
