 | 1914 - Počet stránok 238
...the weapon is the man. Sir Francis Hastings Doyle has said : — " Vain mightiest fleets of armour framed Vain those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep untamed The strong hearts of her sons." We, who cannot be with them, know that out in the grey North Sea the same spirit... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1915 - Počet stránok 568
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain, those...of her sons; So let his name through Europe ring, — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. Francis Hastings... | |
 | Emilie Kip Baker - 1915 - Počet stránok 232
...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron frames; Vain, those all-shattering guns; Unless proud England...of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — • A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was "great. SIR... | |
 | Edith Sophy (Balfour) Lyttelton (Hon. Mrs.) - 1917 - Počet stránok 492
...the news of Friday, and may yet think proudly of their country. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron famed, Vain those all-shattering guns, Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. ALFRED LYTTELTON. 209 HAGLEY HALL, STOURBRIDGE, 5 th August 1894. I missed you dreadfully in church,... | |
 | 1918 - Počet stránok 2062
...thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, / — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. Francis Hastings... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1918 - Počet stránok 694
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent. Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed; Vain, those...of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. LORD HOUGHTON... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1918 - Počet stránok 692
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent. Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed; Vain, 'those...of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. LORD HOUGHTON... | |
 | Hensley Henson - 1918 - Počet stránok 364
...that the human factor finally prevails. Most truly did a patriotic poet of the last century write : Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. Indeed, I am disposed to think that the conditions, under which War must now be waged, have increased... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - 1918 - Počet stránok 106
...that, as far as in them lies, they will aspire to live not unworthily of their imperial mission. ' Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain, those...England keep untamed The strong heart of her sons." But the patriotic and imperial sentiment of English hearts will, in the future, be the very opposite... | |
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Yes, honour calls! — with strength like steel He put the vision by. Let dusky Indians whine and kneel; An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he... 
