 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 196 pages
...keeps her off, And keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled— Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd— But yonder, whiff! there conies a sudden heat, The gravest citizen seems to lose his head, The king... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...keeps her off, And keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — But yonder, whiff! there comes a sudden heat, The gravest citizen seems to lose his head, The king... | |
 | 1889 - 876 pages
...ever-deteriorating materials, possibly with degenerating fibre. We have so far succeeded in retaining "Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd." But we must reckon our power to continue to do so with a people made up of '' minds cast in every mould... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...keeps her off, And keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — But yonder, whiff! there comes a sudden heat, The gravest citizen seems to lose his head, The king... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...keeps her off, And keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — But yonder, whiff! there comes a sudden heat, The gravest citizen seems to lose his head, The king... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...keeps her off, And keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — But yonder, whiff! there comes a sudden heat, The gravest citizen seems to lose his head, The king... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 pages
...keeps her off, And keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — But yonder, whiff! there comes a sudden heat, The gravest citizen seems to lose his head, The king... | |
 | 1865 - 714 pages
...narrow sea, Which keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — God bless the narrow seas I I wish they were a whole Atlantic broad. J I shall conclude this paper... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1865 - 392 pages
...narrow sea, Which keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — God bless the narrow seas ! I wish they were a whole Atlantic broad.} I shall conclude this paper... | |
 | 1947 - 726 pages
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Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd... 
