224 ENGLAND ENGLAND
Wake up England.
King George V., when Prince of Wales. Speech at Guildhall after a trip around the world.
He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he's an Englishman!
For he might have been a Rooshian
A French or Turk or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an.
But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman.
W. S. Gilbert—H. MrS. Pinafore.
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| text = <poem>The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms.
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We have stood alone in that which is called
isolation—our splendid isolation, as one of our
Colonial friends was good enough to call it.
Lord Goschen—Speech at Lewes. (Feb. 26,
1896)
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| text = <poem>Anglica gens est optima flens et pessima ridens.
The English race is the best at weeping and
the worst at laughing.
(The F,nglish take their pleasures sadly.)
Thomas Hearne—Rellquwe Hearniance. Ed.
1857. Vol. I. P. 136. (Source referred
to Chamberlayne—Anglicoe Notitia. (1669)
From old Latin saying quoted in Kornmannus—De Lima Amoris. Ch. II. P.
47. (Ed. 1610) Binder—Noms The-,
saurus Adagiorum Latinorum. No. 2983.
Neander's Ethic Vetus et Sapiens (1590)
(With "sed" not "et," "Rustica" not
"Anglica."
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| text = <poem>What have I done for you,
England, my England?
What is there I would not do,
England, my own?
W. E. Henley—England, My England.
His home!—the Western giant smiles,
And turns the spotty globe to find it;—
This little speck the British Isles?
Tis but a freckle,—never mind it.
Holmes—A Good Time Going.
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| text = Old England is our home and Englishmen are we,
Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag
on every sea.
Mary Howitt—Old England is Our Home.
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| text = <poem>The whole [English] nation, beyond all other
mortal men is most given to banquetting and
feasts.
Paulus Jovros—Hist. Bk. II. Trans, by
Burton—Anat. of Melancholy.
<See also Caklyle)
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English
flag was flown.
Kipling—English Flag.
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Winds of the World give answer! They are
whimpering to and fro—
And what should they know of England who only
England know?—
Kipling—English Flag.
Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously
isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part,
I think splendidly isolated, because this isolation
of England comes from her superiority.
Sir Wilfred Laurler—Speech in the Canadian House of Assembly, Feb. 5, 1896.
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| text = <poem>The New World's sons from England's breast we
drew
Such rnillc as bids remember whence we came,
Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew,
This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
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honor of Sir Walter Raleigh. (1882)
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| text = <poem>Non seulement l'Angleterre, mais chaque
Anglais est une ile.
Not only England, but every Englishman is
an island.
Novalis—Fragments. (1799)
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| text = <poem>Let us hope that England, having saved herself by her energy, may save Europe by her
example.
William Pitt. In his last Speech, made at
the Lord Mayor's Banquet at Guildhall.
(Nov. 9, 1805) As reported by Macaulay
—Misc. Writings. Vol. II. P. 368. But
Europe is not to be saved by. any single
man. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by
her example. Stanhope's—Life of Pitt. Vol.
IV. P. 346. Reported as told him by the
Duke op Wellington. (1838) Neither
the Morning Herald, nor the Times of Nov.
11, 1805 mention these words in comment
on the speech. The London Chronicle and
St. James's Chronicle give different versions.
[King Edward] was careful not to tear England
violently from the splendid isolation in which
she had wrapped herself.
Poincare—Speech at Cannes. (April 13,
1912)
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| text = <poem>Oh, when shall Britain, conscious, of her claim,
Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame?
In living medals see her wars enroll'd,
And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
Pope;—Moral Essays. Epistle to Addison.
L. 53.
<poem>Dieu et mon droit.
God and my right. Password of the day given by Richard J, to his army at the battle of Gisors. In memory of the victory it was made the motto of the royal arms of England.
