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ENGLAND ENGLAND

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. Rupert Brooke—The Soldier.

| seealso = (See also Ingram under Ireland)

Oh, to be in England,
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England—now.
Robert Browning—Home Thoughts from
Abroad.


The men of England—the men, I mean of
light and leading in England.
Burke—Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Phrase used by Disraeli in Speech. (Feb.
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 | text = England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
 | author = Burton
 | work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
 | place = Pt. III.
Sec. III. Memb. 1. Subsect. 2.
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 | text = <poem>Men of England! who inherit
Rights that cost your sires their blood.
Campbell—Men of England.


Britannia needs no bulwarks
No towers along the steep;
Her march is o'er the mountain wave,
Her home is on the deep.
Campbelii—Ye Mariners of England.


II y a en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses
differentes, et une seule sauce.
In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.
Marquis Caraccioli.


A certain man has called us, "of all peoples
the wisest in action,", but he added, "the stupidest in speech."
Carlyle—The Nigger Question.


Where are the rough brave Britons to be found
With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
Mrs. Centtlivre-—Cruel Gift. Epilogue written by Nicholas Rowe. He was ... a
heart of oak, and a pillar of the land. Wood
—Ath. Oxon. (1691) II. 221. Yonkers that have hearts of oake at fourscore yeares. Old Meg of Hertfordshire.
(1609)
Those pigmy tribes of Panton street,
Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,
Obedient to a tyrant's yoke.
A Monstrous good Lounge. (1777) P. 5.
 | seealso = (See also Garrick)


Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.
Churohilij—The Farewell.
 | seealso = (See also Cowper)


Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire,
Cast her ashes into the sea,—
She shall escape, she shall aspire,
She shall arise to make men free;
She shall arise in a sacred scorn,
Lighting the lives that are yet unborn,
Spirit supernal, splendour eternal,
England!
Helen Gray Cone—Chant of Love for England. (1915)
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 | text = <poem>'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can,
That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."
Eliza Cook—An Englishman.
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England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-^My Country! and, while yet a nook is left
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be constrained to love thee.
 | author = Cowper
 | work = Task. Bk. II. L. 206.
 | seealso = (See also Churchill)
 


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 | text = Without one friend, above all foes,
Britannia gives the world repose.
 | author = Cowper
 | work = To Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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 | text = We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
Benj. Disraeli—The Young Duke. Bk. I.
Ch. XI.
 | seealso = (See also Barbere)
 


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 | text = Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail,
Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Dryden—Astrcea Redux. L. 117.


In these troublesome days when the great
Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in
Europe.
Hon. George Eulas Foster—Speech in the
Canadian House of Commons. (Jan. 16,
1896.)
 | seealso = (See also Goschen, Laurier, Potncare)
 


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 | text = Us s'amusaient tristement selon la coutume
de leur pays.
They [the English] amuse themselves sadly
as is the custom of their country.
Attributed to Froissart. Not found in his
works. Same in Due de Sully's Memoirs
(1630) ("Fusage" instead of "coutume.