The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves repulsed and broken for a moment on the shore, while the great tide is still rolling on and gaining ground with every breaker. Essays, Moral and Political - Page 176by Robert Southey - 1832Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 458 pages
...bargain. But that a revolution is inevitable, I repeat. The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves...country ; and is he abetting it by writing lives of Weiley ? One mode of worship is merely destroyed by another. There never was, nor ever will be, a country... | |
| 1821 - 488 pages
...hargain. But that a revolution is inevitable, 1 repeat. The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults these are but the receding waves repulsed and broken for a moment on the shore.while the great tide is still rolling on and gaining ground with every breaker. Mr. Southey accuses... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English drama - 1822 - 224 pages
...bargain. But that a revolution is inevitable, I repeat. The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves...; and is he abetting it by writing lives of Wesley ? One mode of worship is merely destroyed by another. There never was, nor ever will be, a country... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 582 pages
...bargain.. But that a revolution is inevitable, I repeat. The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves...and is he abetting it by writing lives of, Wesley ? One mode of worship is merely destroyed by another. There never was, nor ever will be, a country... | |
| 1822 - 686 pages
...bargain. But that a revolution is inevitable, I repeat. The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves...country ; and is he abetting it by writing lives of Wedey? One mode of worship is merely destroyed by another. There never was, nor never will be, a country... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Devil - 1822 - 346 pages
...inevitable, I repeat. The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these aro but tho receding waves repulsed and broken for a moment on...; and is he abetting it by writing lives of Wesley ? One mode of worship is merely destroyed by another. There never was, nor ever will be, a country... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1822 - 578 pages
...bargain. But that a revolution is inevitable, I repeat. The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves...gaining ground with every breaker. Mr. Southey accuses \is of attacking the religion of the country ; and is he abetting it by writing lives of Wesley ? One... | |
| 1822 - 526 pages
...threatened also with an approaching revolution. " The government," says he, " may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves...rolling on, and gaining ground with every breaker." And we should think so too, if we did not discern in the almost universal feeling of disgust which... | |
| John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...bargain. But that a revolution is inevitable, I repeat. The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves repulsed and broken for a moment on the shore^while the great tide is still rolling on and gaining ground with every breaker." There is more... | |
| John Mathew Gutch - 1822 - 584 pages
...bargain. But that a revolution is inevitable, I repeat. The Government may exult over the repression of petty tumults; these are but the receding waves repulsed and broken for a moment on the »bore, while the great tide is rolling on, and gaining ground with every breaker. .Mr. Southey accuses... | |
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