| David Ramsay - 1817 - 522 páginas
...court a participation in the contest with Ui.it. nation, whose bards had chaunted to her naval pride, that " Her march is o'er the mountain wave, " Her home is on the deep." Commodore Rodgers, in the frigate President, when he received the proclamation of war, called his ship's... | |
| 1826 - 820 páginas
...steep," he says what is not perfectly true ; nor does he give a good reason for it when he adds, " her march is o'er the mountain wave, her home is on the deep." For harbours should be, and are, protected by forts ; and although it is allowable to say, that Britannia's... | |
| 1826 - 838 páginas
...steep," he says what is not perfectly true ; nor docs he give a good reason for it when he adds, " her march is o'er the mountain wave, her home is on the deep." For harbours should be, and are, protected "by forts; and although it is allowable to say, that Britannia's... | |
| Christopher Biden - 1830 - 432 páginas
...long and loud And the stormy tempests blow. " Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below. As she sweeps thro' the deep, While... | |
| 1830 - 698 páginas
...brought to mind the beautiful poetry of Campbell Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep. I wandered alone, along the beach, — the surf gently rose and fell at my feet — the moonlight gave... | |
| 1837 - 860 páginas
...the noble ; and well indeed is it merited. 11 Britannia needs no bulwarks, No castles on the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave?, Her home is on the deep." The bark on the healthy growing oak, although rough, rugous, and seamed, is by no means unsightly to... | |
| Henry Clay - 1838 - 734 páginas
...unbroken hostile array, frowned upon her from the gulf of Archangel, round the promontory of Spain and Portugal, to the foot of the boot of Italy. There...o'er the mountain wave, " Her home is on the deep." was for doing something more with our navy, than to keep it on dttr shores, for the protection of our... | |
| 1842 - 268 páginas
...tell us of their countless legions, that Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep — Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep. And I have often thought, that if this Society desired to give to ambassadors like myself, of other... | |
| 1838 - 634 páginas
...sailing-vessel, the slave of wind and tide, should be applied the language of Mr. Campbell : — " Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep." Until, however, the millennium of utilitarian philosophy shall arrive, when the page of human life... | |
| 1852 - 570 páginas
...alt kind* on the subject, tuch as — " • Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march Is o'er the mountain wave, Her home Is on the deep/ " Thy pardon, good friend BRIGHT. With all due deference to thy udgment as touching poetry, not many... | |
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