| James Parton - 1856 - 720 pàgines
...Astonishment itself the work had done ! WHICH IS WHICH. BTROM. " GOD bless the King ! God bless the faith's defender ! God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender. But who that pretender is, and who that king, God bless us all, is quite another thing." ON SOME LINES OF LOPEZ... | |
| 1857 - 602 pàgines
...suppose, everybody knows by heart, and almost nobody knows to be Byrom'8 : " God bless the King ! I mean our faith's defender ; God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender ; But who Pretender is, or who is King, — God bless us all ! that's quite another thing 1" In the highest sense of the word,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pàgines
...suppose, everybody knows by heart, and almost nobody knows to be Byrom's : " God bless the King ! I mean our faith's defender ; God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender ; But who Pretender is, or who is King, — God bless us all ! that's quite another thing !" In the highest sense of the word,... | |
| John Reilly (of Manchester.) - 1859 - 368 pàgines
...impronitu made on such an occasion by Dr. Byrom is well known: — 1 God bless the King — I mean our faith's defender-! God bless (no harm in blessing) the Pretender ! But who Pretender is, or who is King, — God bless us all — that's quite another thing !• When transportation and execution... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1865 - 930 pàgines
...at the time of the disputed succession, when the toast of Oxford was — " God bless the King, tho Faith's Defender ! God bless — no harm in blessing...! But who Pretender is, and who is King, God bless my soul ! that's quite another thing '." — well at that period, when if at any, oaths might be considered... | |
| Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1866 - 468 pàgines
...1745 at a place afterwards known as the Palace Inn, in Market Street, • God bless the King— I mean our faith's Defender ! God bless (no harm in blessing) the Pretender ! But who Pretender is, or who is King — God bless us all! — that's quite another thing.' The Jacobites were followed by... | |
| Luke Tyerman - 1870 - 656 pàgines
...it, and of his politics, the following is far from being bad : " God bless the King, and bless the Faith's Defender ; God bless — no harm in blessing...Pretender ; But who Pretender is, and who is King, Why, bless us all, that's quite another thing."2 Wesley inserted not a few of his poems in the old... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1870 - 494 pàgines
...witty epigram from Mr. Byrom, a well-known Manch ester resident : — "Owl bless the King, I mean, our faith's defender! God bless (no harm In blessing) the Pretender ! But who Pretender Is— or who is king— G<-d bless us all — that's quite auolher An attempt was made to arraign the local... | |
| George Pryme - 1870 - 442 pàgines
...following lines were intended by their ambiguity to soothe both parties : "God bless the King, I mean the Faith's defender, God bless— no harm in blessing — the Pretender; But who Pretender is, or who is King, God bless us all — that's quite another thing *. " I had a little book called Thc... | |
| Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - 1873 - 680 pàgines
...lines, which were at the period almost in everybody's mouth : — " 'God bless our rightful King, the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender ; But who Pretender is, or who is King, God bless my soul ! that's quite another thing.' " " If the evidence is merely to rest... | |
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