 Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden...  Sonnets, and Other Poems, - Page 176by William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pages
...Observations on the Figures of Speech and Epithets employed, according to No. 242. 255. PIUISE OF ENGLAND. England, with all thy faults, I love thee still, My...Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constraint to love thee. Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most pail deform'd With dripping... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1852 - 466 pages
...ask of him. Or ask of whomsoever he has taught ; And learn, though late, the genuine cause of all, England, with all thy faults, I love thee still—...nook is left, Where English minds and manners may he found, Shall he constraint to love thee. Though thy cliine Be fickle, and thy year most part deform'd... | |
 | Christopher Chattock - Charters - 1884 - 344 pages
...ANTIQUITIES. CHAPTEE I. " ENUUAND! with all thy faults, I love thee still; My country ! and, whilst yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee ! " — COWPBE. LOVE of country has, by a wise and beneficent providence,... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...none to heal the effects Of loathsome diet, penury, and cold. ENGLAND. [From Book IL Tkt Timrpiree.] ENGLAND, with all thy faults, I love thee still, My...Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deformed With dripping... | |
 | Mary L. Evans - Europe - 1885 - 364 pages
...From my inmost heart can I adopt the language of Britain's purest, sweetest of poets, America, "With all thy faults I love thee still — my country !, and, while yet a nook is left where" American "minds and manners may be found, shall be constrained to love thee;" and prefer thee, too,... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...and, while yet a nook is left ' Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deformed With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies And... | |
 | John Ross MacDuff - 1885 - 162 pages
...feeling of national pride, but as the result of calm and unbiassed conviction, would we exclaim, " England, with all thy faults, -I love thee still, My country ! and where yet a nook is left, Where British minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrain'd to love... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1888 - 388 pages
...juster strain of patriotic commendation. The following lines give the tone of the whole passage :.— England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My...manners may be found, Shall be constrain'd to love thee. He loves his country better than all others, though some may be fairer or more fruitful; and the very... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...eye-salve, ask of Him, Or ask of whomsoever He has taught, And learn, though late, the genuine cause of all. England, with all thy faults, I love thee still, My...Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deformed 210 And fields... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1891 - 168 pages
...conditions under which the negro was to live." 73. the patriot's boast. Cf. Cowper, Task, book ii. " England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My...Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deform'd With dripping... | |
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