| John Murray (Firm) - Berkshire (England) - 1860 - 294 pages
...this, to live and die the vicar of Bray.' " Hence his declaration in the wellknown ballad : — • " To teach my flock I never missed Kings were by God appointed; Ami they are damned who dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. Ami this is law, 1 will maintain... | |
| Charles Kerry - Bray (England) - 1861 - 256 pages
...harm in 't, A zealous High Churchman I was, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never miss'd Kings were by God appointed, And they are damned who dare resist, Or touch the Lord's anointed. Chorus—And this is law I will maintain, Until my dying day, sir, That whatsoever king shall reign,... | |
| Walter Thornbury - England - 1870 - 344 pages
...from Reading or Oxford, shouting to a rattling old tune the scurrilous ballad written upon him : " To teach my flock I never missed ; Kings were by God...king shall reign, I'll be the Vicar of Bray, Sir." The vicar was no hypocrite, however, for he always boldly avowed his principle of keeping office at... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - Clergy - 1870 - 362 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous High Churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed, Kings were by God appointed, And lost are those that dare resist, Or touch the Lord's anointed. And this is law that I '11 maintain... | |
| Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...Charles's golden days. When royalty no hnrm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. TF _7 M7.9 ϡN g+ + ʙ 3 V W : ( I 9!~XvCLZ= H lost are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. Chor. And this is law that I'll maintain... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 290 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God appointed. And lost are those who dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. And tins is the law that I '11 maintain... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God appointed, And lost are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. And this is law that I'll maintain Until... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed: Kings were by God appointed. And lost are those who dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. And this is the law that I 'll maintain... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so 1 got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God appointed. And lost are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. And this is laic thai I 'II maintain... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God appointed, And lost are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. And this is law that I'll maintain Until... | |
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