| British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...virtue! Oh farewell I Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance, of glorious war ! And, oil ye mortal engines ! whose rude throats Th' immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell... | |
| 1819 - 832 pages
...shield is like the moon, but like the moon artificially seen through the glass of the Tuscan artist. The ' spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, the royal banner, and all quality, pride, are all artificial images. When Shakspetre groups into one view the most sublime objects of tlie universe,... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big war That made ambition virtue ! Oh farewell ! ' Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump ; The spirit-stirring drum, the ear- piercing fife, ' The royal banner : and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious... | |
| England - 1820 - 724 pages
...uproar sounds, above all others, for a hundred years, cursed and loathed by all Whiggish ears — " The neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring...quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war." It is now for the first time that British Whig journals have the audacious meanness to lick the indignant... | |
| 1822 - 682 pages
...and subdued spirit, but firm purpose, of these self-expatriated men, and the Spanish invasion, with " The neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring...quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war." The English colonists were impelled by their high regard for the rights of conscience ; the Spanish... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...content ' Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, : That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,...quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell... | |
| G. Proctor, George Procter - United States - 1823 - 434 pages
...I am tired of being tossed about, and now want nothing but quiet. I am right well content to sing, Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,...quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. I'm sick of them, Humphrey." " Then," said I, seizing the moment, " why need you go farther for your... | |
| William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 490 pages
...farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the hig wars, That make amhition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,...quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats (1) The mandrake has a soporific quality. (2) Possessed/*.... | |
| G. Proctor, George Procter - United States - 1823 - 426 pages
...I am tired of being tossed about, and now want nothing but quiet. I am right well content to sing, Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,...spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal hanner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. I'm sick of them, Humphrey."... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...virtue ! Oh farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance, of glorious war ! And, oh ye mortal engines ! whose rude throats Th' immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell... | |
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