 Come the eleventh plague, rather than this should be; Come sink us rather in the sea. Come rather pestilence, and reap us down ; Come God's sword rather than our own. Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane : In all the bonds we ever...  Cobbett's Political Register - Page 555edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
 | George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...rather in the sea ; Come, rather, pestilence, and reap ns down ; Come God's sword, rather than onr own. Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane. In all the bonds we ever bore, We grieved, we sighed, we wept ; — we never blnshed before.' mywlf from the reproach of having furthered... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT - 1881 - 564 pages
...sink ns rather in the sea ; Come, rather, pestilence, and reap us down ; Come God's sword, rather than our own. Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman,...or the Dane. In all the bonds we ever bore, >, We grieved, we sighed, we wept ; — we never blushed before.' Blush, indeed, we shall, if we submit to... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...Come sink us rather in the sea; Come rather pestilence and reap us down; Come God's sword rather than &' 8ǁ \͠aV$ N griev'd, we aigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before, y. COWLEY. — Discourse Concerning the Government... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1883 - 406 pages
...impassioned expression of the indignation of a Briton under the depression of disasters somewhat similar. " Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane : In all the bonds we ever bore, We grieved, we sighed, we wept, we never blushed before." , Discourse on the Government of Oliver Cromwell.... | |
 | 1888 - 950 pages
...allied with horrid cruelty, that prevailed, exclaim in words first written for another purpose : — " Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane, In all the bonds we ever bore, We grieved, we sighed, we wept, we never blushed before." Talk of submission ! Had the whole land risen... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...Pestilence, and reap tu down ; Come God's sword rather than our own : Let rather Roman come again, Or Sixon, Norman, or the Dane : In all the bonds we ever bore We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept : we neve. blush'd before. If by our sins the divine vengeance be Call'd... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...sink us rather in the sea : Come rather Pestilence, and reap us down ; Come God's sword rather than our own : Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane : In all the bonds we ever bore We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept : we neve. Hush'd before. If by our sins the divine vengeance be Call'd... | |
 | Yarnall - 1897 - 104 pages
...Thames, sounds strangely like a satire when applied to the England of Cowley's childhood, and the lines : Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane: In all the bonds we ever bore, We grieved, we sighed, we wept, we never blushed before. might surely apply to the reigns of the first... | |
 | James Beresford Atlay - Great Britain - 1908 - 516 pages
...Come sink us rather in the sea. Come rather pestilence and reap us down ; Come God's sword rather than our own. Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane, In all the bonds we ever bore, We grieved, we sighed, we wept ; we never blushed before. nearly an hour Lord Cairns held us, to use an... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - Literary Collections - 1915 - 416 pages
...sink us rather in the Sea. jo Come rather Pestilence, and reap us down ; Come Gods Sword rather than our own. Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane, In all the Bonds we ever bore, 8. If by our sins the Divine Justice be Call'd to this last extremity, Let some denouncing Jonas first... | |
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