 | Midland railway - 446 pàgines
...— Mr. Byrom — whom we have to thank for the oft-quoted epigram : — " 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." Hotels— "Queen's," "Albion,"... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pàgines
...a woman ? Byron, JV'ofe to Lttter on Soviet. JOHN BYROM. 1691-1763. 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. To an Officer vf the Army, extempore.... | |
 | James Cyprian Canby Biddle- Cope (marq.) - 1884 - 318 pàgines
...colleges. A fellow of St. John's at that time wrote the well-known lines : — " 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." And these afford a little indication... | |
 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1884 - 744 pàgines
...officer of the army, he gave utterance to the following epigram : " 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." John Wesley said of his "Poems,"... | |
 | Isabella Banks - 1885 - 320 pàgines
...my dear. I mean — " and he nodded significantly — " God bless the king — I mean our f aith's defender ; God bless — no harm in blessing — the...But who pretender is, and who 'is king, God bless my soul, that's quite another thing." And, with a flourish of his hat, he bowed himself out. Her father... | |
 | Mrs. George Linnaeus Banks - 1885 - 300 pàgines
...significantly — " God bless the king — I mean our faith's defender ; God bless — no harm in bleaaing — the Pretender ; But who pretender is, and who is king, God bless my goul, that's quite another thing." And, with a flourish of his hat, he bowed himself out. Her father... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 pàgines
...reconciled the conflicting claims of King George and Prince Charles:— ' 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.' But his poem on The Origin... | |
 | Alfred Darbyshire - 1887 - 152 pàgines
...understood to have extemporised the following well-known epigram : — 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. On the evening of November 28... | |
 | John Augustus O'Shea - 1887 - 346 pàgines
...latitudes the lines of John Byrom a century before would well apply : " 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 !" " If you go to Irun," said Barbarossa,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 494 pàgines
...Confusion to the Pretender I Upon which the doctor sang out — ' ' God bless the king, of church and state defender ; God bless (no harm in blessing) the Pretender ! But who Pretender is, and who the King — God bless us all ! that's quite another thing." Dr. Byrom [John Byrom, 1691-1763] was... | |
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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. 
