Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart and in limb, Strong with the strength of the race to command, to obey, to endure... Readings - Sivu 1851888 - 197 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Arthur Compton Auchmuty - 1895 - 172 sivua
...by the handful they could not subdue; And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of England blew. IV. Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart...Strong with the strength of the race to command, to Each of us fought as if hope for the garrison hung but on him; Still—could we watch at all points... | |
| William Basil Worsfold - 1895 - 326 sivua
...Lucknaw, and in particular the two lines — " Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart and limb, Strong with the strength of the race to command, to obey, to endure ; " and compare it with Mr Rudyard Kipling's Ballad of East and West, in which the same pride of race... | |
| William Basil Worsfold - 1895 - 332 sivua
...like subjects. Take, for example, Tennyson's Defence of Lucknow, and in particular the two lines — " Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart and limb, Strong with the strength of the race to command, to obey, to endure ; " and compare it with Mr... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 136 sivua
...the handful they could not subdue ; And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of England blew. IV. Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart...at all points ? we were every day fewer and fewer. There was a whisper among us, but only a whisper that past; •"Children and wives — if the tigers... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1896 - 500 sivua
...last by the handful they could not subdue; And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of England blew. Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart...and in limb, Strong with the strength of the race 10 command, to obey, to endure, Each of us fought as if hope for the garrison hung but on him; Still... | |
| William Basil Worsfold - 1897 - 308 sivua
...supremacy of that race depends upon its morality. ' Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart and limb, Strong with the strength of the race, to command, to obey, to endure.' 2 He has reflected these aspirations in their more defined form of Imperial Unity. 1 The loyal to their... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 276 sivua
...by the handful they could not subdue ; And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of England blewIV. Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart...at all points ? we were every day fewer and fewer. There was a whisper among us, but only a whisper that pass'd : 5° ' Children and wives — if the... | |
| Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1899 - 672 sivua
...by the handful they could not subdue ; And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of England blew. 45 Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart...; Still — could we watch at all points? We were everyday fewer and fewer. There was a whisper among us, but only a whisper that passed : 50 "Children... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 1002 sivua
...last by the handful they could not subdue ; And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of England blew. Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart...of us fought as if hope for the garrison hung but ou him ; Still — could we watch at nil points ? we were every day fewer and fewer. There was a whisper... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 298 sivua
...last by the handful they could not subdue ; And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of England blew. Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart...Strong with the strength of the race to command, to ooey, to endure, Each of us fought as if hope for the garrison hung but on him ; Still— could we... | |
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