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Those pigmy tribes of Panton street,
Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,
Obedient to a tyrant's yoke.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: A Monstrous good Lounge (p. 5)
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England! my country, great and free!
Heart of the world, I leap to thee!
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. The Surface, l. 376)
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Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of
shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere).
Author: Bertrand Barere
Source: said before the National Convention
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In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the
English.
[Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids,
Goddam! j'aime les anglais.]
Author: Bertrand Barere
Source: said before the National Convention
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only
an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at
the same time.
Author: Aneurin Bevan
Source: in a speech at Blackpool as reported by the "Daily Herald" on May 25, 1945
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Ah! the perfidious English!
[Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]
Author: Jacques Benigue Bossuet
Source: Sermon on the Circumcision, preaching at Metz, quoted by Napoleon on leaving England for St. Helena
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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.
Author: Rupert Brooke
Source: The Soldier
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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.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Home Thoughts from Abroad
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The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in
England.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a
paradise for horses, hell for women.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
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Men of England! who inherit
Rights that cost your sires their blood.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Men of England
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Britannia needs no bulwarks
No towers along the steep;
Her march is o'er the mountain wave,
Her home is on the deep.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Ye Mariners of England
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In England three are sixty different religions, and only one
sauce.
[It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes,
et une seule sauce.]
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Ye Mariners of England
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the
English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Richter
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A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in
action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: The Nigger Question
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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found
With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
Author: Mrs. Susannah Centlivre
Source: Cruel Gift
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Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Farewell
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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, splendor eternal,
England!
Author: Helen Gray Cone
Source: Chant of Lover for England
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'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can,
That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."
Author: Eliza Cook
Source: 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: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 206)
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Without one friend, above all foes,
Britannia gives the world repose.
Author: William Cowper
Source: To Sir Joshua Reynolds
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We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: The Young Duke (bk. I, ch. XI)
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail,
Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Astroea Redux (l. 117)
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In these troublesome days when the great
Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.
Author: Hon. Sir George Eulas Foster
Source: in a speech in the Canadian House of Commons
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They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of
their country.
[Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]
Author: Hon. Sir George Eulas Foster
Source: in a speech in the Canadian House of Commons
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