...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends er foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive...

...Gladstone, because it seeks to realise that noble description of England given by our Poet Laureate — A land of settled Government; A land of just and old renown, Where freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent. That is the England that I love, that is the style...

...foundation of the House of Commons—first introduced; and, as the Poet Laureate sings, England became A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown. Where freedom slowly broadens down, From precedent to precedent. De Montfort was now in the fulness of his power;...

...upon the stanza in which Mr. Tennyson declares it to be the special praise of England that she is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Whose freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent,"— and the lines are certainly very...

...(9. ) Here stopped the good old sire and wept for joy, In silent raptures of the hopeful boy. (10.) A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown. (11.) Myself not least, but honoured of them all. (12.) Of twenty yere of age he was I gesse, Of his...

...upon the stanza in which Mr. Tennyson declares it to be the special praise of England that she is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Whose freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent,'— and the Hues are certainly very...

...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees...

...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees...

...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees...

...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees...