 | Mrs. Edmund Boger - Folklore - 1887 - 692 pages
...verse which sounds so oddly, and is yet almost invariably sung with such exuberant enthusiasm — " Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks ; On him our hopes we fix : God save the King " — was at that time singularly appropriate, and was doubtless suggested by the occurrence... | |
 | English periodicals - 1926 - 1126 pages
...referred to sang the National Anthem, and in the second verse — Oh Lord our God, arise, Scatter her enemies, And make them fall: Confound their politics; Frustrate their knavish tricks; when he came to the line he changed the pronoun apostrophising the Deity and sang On her our hopes... | |
 | English periodicals - 1926 - 1014 pages
...referred to sang the National Anthem, and in the second verse — Oh Lord our God, arise, Scatter her enemies, And make them fall: Confound their politics; Frustrate their knavish tricks; when he came to the line he changed the pronoun apostrophising the Deity and sang On her our hopes... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Literary Collections - 1986 - 626 pages
...comradeship as well as the popular note of conflict. I quote from memory, but I think the verse runs — O Lord, our God, arise. Scatter his enemies, And make...their politics. Frustrate their knavish tricks; On Thee our hopes we fix: God save us all. It is the only verse that begins with something like fine Biblical... | |
 | Elizabeth Hale Winkler - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 382 pages
...littleknown second stanza, words much in the spirit of the ironic scene: O Lord our God, arise, Scatter our enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks; On thee our hopes we fix: God save us all.53 Shortly afterward, the enemy bomb of reprisal explodes in... | |
 | Linda Colley - Social Science - 2005 - 452 pages
...save the King. Send him victorious Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the King. O Lord our God arise, Scatter his enemies And make them fall: Confound their politicks, Frustrate their knavish tricks. On him our hopes are fix'd O save us all. It was in a London... | |
 | Anthony Powell - Fiction - 1995 - 748 pages
...save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious Long to reign over us; God save the King! O Lord our God arise Scatter his enemies, And make them...their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, On thee our hopes we fix; God save us all. Thy choicest gift in store On him be pleased to pour; Long... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Fiction - 1998 - 502 pages
...second verse of the British national anthem by Henry Carey (i693?-i743): 'Confound their Politicks, / Frustrate their Knavish Tricks, / On him our Hopes we fix, / God save us all.' 237 (p. 199) Chapter 21 After CD's death Forster restored the cuts the author had made in the proofs... | |
 | Edward Royle - History - 2000 - 228 pages
...been sung (in French!) for Louis XIV in 1686, the words of a later verse were explicitly loyalist: O Lord our God, arise, Scatter his enemies, And make...Confound their politics; Frustrate their knavish tricks; 154 On him our hopes are fix'd; O save us all.29 When Benjamin Brierley came to reconstruct in fiction... | |
 | Jeffrey Richards - History - 2001 - 552 pages
...the King, Long Live our noble King, God save the King. and the second verse was the still existing: O Lord Our God arise, Scatter his Enemies And make them fall; Confound their Politicks, Frustrate their Knavish Tricks, On him our Hopes are fixed O save us all. The success of... | |
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O Lord our God, arise! Scatter his enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks: On Thee our hopes we fix — God save us all! 
