 | Charles Harding Firth - 1900 - 590 pages
...near the ocean lies, Sounding your name, and telling dreadful news To all that piracy and rapine use. Whether this portion of the world were rent By the...ocean from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure designed To be the sacred refuge of mankind. Hither the oppressed shall henceforth resort Justice... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1902 - 476 pages
...states to awe ; In this conjunction doth on Britain smile, The greatest leader and the greatest isle ! Whether this portion of the world were rent By the...ocean from the Continent, Or thus created, it was sure designed To be the sacred refuge of mankind. Hither the oppressed shall henceforth resort, Justice... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1910 - 452 pages
...Retervtd) ft A CENTURY OF EMPIRE 1801-1900 BY THE RIGHT HON. SIR HERBERT MAXWELL, BART. FRS, DCL, LL.D. " Whether this portion of the world were rent By the rude Ocean from the Continent, Or thus ereated, it vxa tare desvmed To be the iaered refuge of mankind." WALLER. IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. II.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 752 pages
...States to awe, In this conjunction doth on Britain smile, The greatest leader and the greatest isle! Whether this portion of the world were rent By the...ocean from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure designed To be the sacred refuge of mankind. Hither the oppressed shall henceforth resort, Justice... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1921 - 536 pages
...under," and the lines in Edmund Waller's Panegyric on Cromwell, which anticipate also American language : Whether this portion of the world were rent By the...Ocean from the continent; Or thus created, it was sure designed To be the sacred refuge of mankind. Hither the oppressed shall henceforth resort Justice... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 372 pages
...the Avenger Edmund Waller, a 16th century poet, in describing Britain wrote 76 Symbolic Designations Whether this portion of the world were rent By the...ocean, from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure designed To be the sacred refuge of mankind. The Pilgrim Fathers failed to find it a "sacred refuge"... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1926 - 356 pages
...ever drawn of Ireland." And his panegyrist Waller was to sing his fiction of Oliver's England, that : Whether this portion of the world were rent By the...ocean from the continent Or thus created — it was sure designed To be the sacred refuge of mankind. Hither the oppressed shall henceforth resort, Justice... | |
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Whether this portion of the world were rent By the rude ocean from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure design'd To be the sacred refuge of mankind. 
