| James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 520 pagina’s
...past; Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ,' Conquering with force of arm 1 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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 524 pagina’s
...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 Janus1 he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 pagina’s
...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
...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
...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 - 386 pagina’s
...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... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pagina’s
...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
...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
...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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