Chapter ENGLAND to ENGLAND of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

O England! model to thy inward greatness,
Like little body with a mighty heart,
What might’st thou do, that honour would thee do,
Were all thy children kind and natural.

Shakespeare.—Chorus to King Henry V. Act II.

May he be suffocate,
That dims the honour of this warlike isle!

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part II. Act I. Scene 1. (York on Suffolk’s conduct in relinquishing Anjou and Maine to Naples.)

There learned arts do flourish in great honour,
And poets’ wits are had in peerless price;
Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her,
Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice.
For end all good, all grace there freely grows,
Had people grace it gratefully to use:
For God his gifts there plenteously bestows,
But graceless men them greatly do abuse.

Spenser.—Colin Clout.

ENGLAND.—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 constrain’d to love thee.

Cowper.—The Task, Book II.

Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.

Churchill.—The Farewell.

Without one friend, above all foes,
Britannia gives the world repose.

Cowper.—Miscellaneous Poems; (To Sir Joshua Reynolds.)