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Countries-England: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 40.

There is no land like England, Whate'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Whate'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.— TENNYSON — The Foresters. Song.

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.— THOMSON — Songs from "Alfred."

Rule Britannia. A power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.— DANIEL WEBSTER — Speech. The

Presidential Protest. May 7, 1834. Vol. IV. P. 110. Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?— OSCAR WILDE — Ave Imperatrix.

Greece. Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth ! Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great!— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto II. St. 73.

Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.— BYRON — The Giaour. L. 90.