career, wrote: Where'er thy Navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all, she brings. Although the wings are no longer canvas, the statement holds as good now as it did more than two hundred years ago. For a long time the British Navy... The Living Age - Pagina 6371916Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 652 pagina’s
...this mix'd divinity and love f 3 AeKiWes. * TAmanthes. s Cyparissus. TO THE KING ON HIS VAVY. WmKï'nt thy navy spreads her canvas* wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all, she brin,- : The French and Spaniard, when thy flap: appear, Forget their hatred, and consent to fear.... | |
| Richard Clark - 1814 - 530 pagina’s
...their dew-drop tears, And spangle out the morn. J\l. Madan, Esq. GLEE for Three Voices. Dr. COOKE. R thy navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all she brings; The French and Spaniards when thy flags appear, Forget their hatred, and consent to fear: So Jove,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pagina’s
...Elijah Fenton. It has, subsequently, been reprinted in small 8vo. EXTRACTS. To the King on his Navy. ' WHERE'ER thy navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all she brings; The French and Spaniard, when thy flags appear, Forget their hatred, and consent to fear. So Jove from... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pagina’s
...Elijah Fenton. It has, subsequently, been reprinted in small 8vo. EXTRACTS. To the King on his Navy, * WHERE'ER thy navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all she brings; The French and Spaniard, when thy flags appear, Forget their hatred, and consent to fear. So Jove from... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 404 pagina’s
...Frequented their assemblies whereto met. Id. Whereto the' Almighty answered, not displeased. Id, Where-e'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all, she brings. Waller. Whereat seeing requires light, a free medium, and a 2 U right line to the objects, we can hear... | |
| Edmund Waller - 1854 - 276 pagina’s
...Emperor of Morocco by openly rebelling against his authority. TO THE KING, ON HIS NAVY.* TTTHERE'ER thy navy spreads her canvas wings, • * Homage to thee, and peace to all she brings; The French and Spaniard, when thy flags appear, Forget their hatred, and consent to fear. So Jove from... | |
| Edmund Waller - 1857 - 378 pagina’s
...maxime regum! Ausus et ipse maim juvenum tentare laborem.—YIRG. EPISTLES. TO THE KING, ON HIS NAVY. WHERE'ER thy navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all she brings; The French and Spaniard, when thy flags appear, Forget their hatred, and consent to fear. So Jove from... | |
| Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 pagina’s
...et ¡pse manu juvenum tentare laboran.—VlUG. EPISTLES. TO THE KING, ON HIS NAVY. WHERE'ER thy nary spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all she brings; The French and Spaniard, when thy flags appear, Forget their hatred, and consent to fear. So Jove from... | |
| Edmund Waller - 1871 - 276 pagina’s
...destruction of a nest of sanguinary pirates, is a manifest anti-climax. TO THE KING, ON HIS NAVY.* TTTHERE'ER thy navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all she brings; The French and Spaniard, when thy flags appear, Forget their hatred, and consent to fear. So Jove from... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pagina’s
...WALLER. The bigger whale like some huge carack lay, Which wanteth sea.room with her foes to play. WALLER. Where'er thy navy spreads her "canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all, she brings. WALLER. Speed on the ship!—But let her bear No merchandise of sin, No groaning cargo of despair,... | |
| |