 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...protected. What constitutes the State ? " What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred... | |
 | English poetry - 1843 - 368 pages
...whom these notes are sung. AN ODE, IN IMITATION OF ALC^ECS. WHAT constitutes a State ? Not high-raised battlement or labourd mound, Thick wall or moated...ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; i . Not starr'd and spangled courts, Tiere low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Anti-Catholicism - 1843 - 48 pages
...constitutes a State ? Let the poet and legislator first answer. Not high-raised battlement or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred... | |
 | Sophocles, John Frederick Boyes - Comparative literature - 1844 - 242 pages
...True, The people are the city. Coriolanus, act ii i. sc. l . What constitutes a state 1 Not high raised battlement, or labour'd mound, Thick wall, or moated...proud, with spires and turrets crown'd, Not bays, and broad arm'd ports, Where laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, No ! men, high minded men. He Beholds... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...strength and safety of a state. " What constitutes a state ? — Not high raised battlement or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd, Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts,... | |
 | Theology - 1845 - 632 pages
...clothed in poetic language : — " What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starr'd and spangled courts,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...purА я Ode, m Imitation of Alaeiu. What constitutes a state ! Not high-raised battlement or laboured It is the moss that wholly hides The rotted old oak-stump. The skiff-bout n crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...to wretchedness." 3. " What constitutes a state ? — Not high raised battlements, or labored m6und, Thick wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, Not bays and broad-armed p6rts, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride ; Not starred... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 410 pages
...strength and safety of a state. " What constitutes a state ? — Not high raised battlement or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd, Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...STATE. IN IMITATION OF AI.CJEUS. WHAT constitutes a State ? Not high-raised battlement or laboured mound, Thick wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; 1 The pithiness... | |
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What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled... 
