 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...glorious state ; The seat of empire, where the Irish come, And the unwilling Scots, to fetch their doom. The sea's our own : and now, all nations greet, With bending sails, each vessel of our flcef: Your power extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the globe may go. Heaven... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...state ; The seat of empire, where the Irish come, And the unwilling Scots, to fetch their doom. • > a The sea's our own : and now, all nations greet, With bending sails, each vessel of our fleet : Your power extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the globe may go. Heaven (that... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - Great Britain - 1822 - 622 pages
...Abbey, (ss) * Waller. t Ibid. In another of his poems, Waller, addressing the Protector, writes : ' The sea's our own ! and now all nations greet. With bending sails, each vessel of our fleet : Your power extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the globe may go !' — Nothing... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...glorious state ; The seat of empire, where the Irish come, And the unwilling Scots, to fetch their doom. The sea's our own : and now all nations greet, With bending sails, each vessel of our fleet. Your power extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the globe may go. Heaven, (that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 pages
...to these triumphs that Waller remarks, in his celebrated panegyric on the Lord Protector. " The seas our own, and now all nations greet, With bending sails each vessel of our fleet. Your power extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the globe may go."* We add the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 pages
...to these triumphs that Waller remarks, in his celebrated panegyric on the Lord Protector. " The seas our own, and now all nations greet, With bending sails each vessel of our fleet. Your power extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the globe may go."* We add the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...to these triumphs that Waller remarks, in his celebrated panegyric on the Lord Protector. " The seas our own, and now all nations greet, With bending sails each vessel of our fleet. Your power extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the globe may go." * We add the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1839 - 466 pages
...they recollected what a great man their lord protector was, and sent up an ill-sung song of praise ! " The sea's our own ! and now all nations greet, 'With...extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the.globe may go." There may have been some consolation in the fact that the sea was their own, but... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...empire, where the Irish come, And the unwilling Scots, to fetch their doom The sea's our own : end . She fables not ; I feel that I do fear 800 Her words set off by som Your power extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the globe may go. Heaven (that... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...The sea's our own : and now, all nations greot, With bending sails, each vessel of our fleet: Your y me adom'd Heaven (that hath plac'd this island to give law, To balance Europe, and her states to awe,} In this... | |
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The sea's our own : and now all nations greet, With bending sails, each vessel of our fleet. Your power extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the globe may go. 
