"Speeching" Quotes from Famous Books
... and State," and "William's matchless laws," And "Acts and Rights of glorious Eighty-eight,"— Things which tho' now a century out of date Still serve to ballast with convenient words, A few crank arguments for speeching lords,— Turn while I tell how England's freedom found, Where most she lookt for life, her deadliest wound; How brave she struggled while her foe was seen, How faint since Influence lent that foe a screen; How strong o'er James and Popery she prevailed, How ... — The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al |