 | William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 pagina’s
...obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms, and dint of wit : Theirs was the giant race, before the flood ; And thus, when Charles returned, our empire stood. Like Janus, he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pagina’s
...Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms, and dint of wit i Theirs was the giant race, before the flood ; And thus, when Charles returned, our empire stood. , , •• Like Janus, he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry... | |
 | John Palmer - 1913 - 354 pagina’s
...obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms and dint of wit, Theirs was the giant race before the flood ; And thus, when Charles returned, our empire stood. Like Janus, he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness... | |
 | John Palmer - 1913 - 366 pagina’s
...obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms and dint of wit, Theirs was the giant race before the flood ; And thus, whea Charles returned, our empire stood. Like Janus, he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 pagina’s
...obscures the past: Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms and dint of wit; Theirs was the giant race before the flood; And thus, when Charles returned, our empire stood. Like Janus he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - 1924 - 312 pagina’s
.... H. ^Bullen " Strong were our sires, and as they fought they rtrit, Conquering with force of arms and dint of wit : theirs was the giant race before the flood." DRYDEN London Chapman and Hall Ltd. 1924 Printed in Great Britain at The Westminster Press 411a Harrow... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pagina’s
...obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms and dint of wit ; Theirs was the giant race before the flood ; 5 And thus, when Charles returned, our empire stood. Like Janus he the stubborn soil manured, With... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pagina’s
...obscures the past: Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conqu'ring with force of arms, and dint of wit; Theirs was the giant race, before the flood. And thus, when Charles returned, our empire stood. Like Janus he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pagina’s
...obscures the past. Strong were our sires; and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms and dint of wit; Theirs was the giant race before the flood,* And thus, when Charles returned, our empire stood. Like Janus he the stubborn soil manured,* With rules of husbandry the rankness... | |
 | 1871 - 498 pagina’s
...obscures the past ; Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arm* and dint of wit. Theirs was the giant race before the Flood ; And thus when Charles returned our Empire stood ; Like Janus he ihe stubborn soil manured, Wiih rules of husbandry the rankness... | |
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Well, then, the promised hour is come at last, The present age of wit obscures the past... 
