 For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with...  Littell's Living Age - Page 6111910Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 pages
...war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred throues. U. For I trnst if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill,...out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snub-nosed rogne would leap from his counter and til.. And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1885 - 526 pages
...loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones. For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill,...could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home. What ! am I raging alone as my father raged in his mood 1 Must / too creep to the hollow and dash myself... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones. For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill,...could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home. What ! am I raging alone as my father raged in his mood ? Must / too creep to the hollow and dash myself... | |
 | 1898 - 790 pages
...millionaire. For I trust, if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill. And the rushing battle bolt sang from the threedecker out of the foam, That the...could, were it but with his cheating yard-wand, home. It is quite true that the business man has generally found his account in war. The expansion of England... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 508 pages
...by land and by sea, "War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones. XIII. For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill....battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the ibam, That the smooth-faced snubnqsed rogue would leap from his counter and till, Aud strike, if he... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1889 - 326 pages
...clear away the evils of commercial greed and corruption that infest the time of peace : — For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill,...could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home. But war in general has no such purifying effect as to transform a dishonest tailor into a great-souled... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Academic achievement - 1889 - 894 pages
...war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones. XIII. For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill,...strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yard wand, home. XIV. What ! am I raging alone as my father raged in his mood ? Must / too creep to... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons, English - 1889 - 200 pages
...degenerate as to keep back, not even the dishonest shopman, of whom the poet writes : — " I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rush of the battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced, snub-nosed... | |
 | Ralph Olmsted Williams - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 204 pages
...that the use of wand for stick in the last of the following lines was an affectation : For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill,...could, were it but with his cheating yard-wand, home. I confess that for a long time I never read these verses without feeling some resentment at the poet... | |
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