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Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak.

The Poetical Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 210
by James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1920: With an ..., Volume 2

1937 - 2066 pages

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Victorian Song: From Dive to Drawing Room, Volume 5

Maurice Willson Disher - 1955 - 284 pages

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An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry

Howard Foster Lowry, Willard Thorp - 1956 - 1384 pages

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English Literature and Its Backgrounds: From the forerunners of romanticism ...

Bernard D. N. Grebanier - 1966 - 1248 pages

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The Castle of Indolence, and Other Poems

James Thomson - 1961 - 250 pages

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Eighteenth-century Poetry

Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1964 - 518 pages

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Songs of Freedom: An Anthology of National and International Songs from ...

Ramachandra Krishna Prabhu - 1967 - 562 pages

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A. P. H.: His Life and Times

Alan Patrick Herbert - 1970 - 388 pages

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The Twentieth Century, Volume 97

1925 - 1028 pages

...flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. Still more majestic shalt thou rise. More dreaded from each foreign stroke ; As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. After all, Thomson did achieve greatness. The second of the two verses that I have quoted reminds us...

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Eighteenth Century Poetry & Prose

Louis Ignatius Bredvold, Alan Dugald McKillop, Lois Whitney, John Marshall Bullitt - 1973 - 1538 pages

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