...We'll love the land for which they fell, With soul and strength and might. — 5. if. Kntil Loyalty Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country- ever is at home. — Goldsmith Patriotism O Washington! thou hero, patriot, sage, Friend of all climes and pride of...

...revelry and ease; The naked negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, 70 And there upon the ground I sit, And sing a song to them. 'And often after sunset, sir Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home. And yet, perhaps,...

...Strange Adventures " Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see, My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee. " Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country, ever is at home." — Goldsmith. THE insurgent captain and his merry men glided away as they had come, like ghosts in...

...the affections Are infinite, and cannot be exhausted."? 778. Who wrote "Lalla Rookh"? 779. Who said: "Such is the patriot's boast where'er we roam; His first, best country ever is his home"? 780. What poet graduated from Bowdoin college at the age of fourteen? 781. Who said: "A...

...birth. Most correctly has that good man and true patriot, Oliver Goldsmith said: — [Enclosure] " Tis the patriot's boast where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home." Yes Sir, allow me to say, while an exile, and a stranger in a foreign land, I keenly felt the force...

...words of Goldsmith, spoken of nations, have a broader meaning than he had in mind when he wrote: * * * if countries we compare And estimate the blessings which they share, Tho patriots flatter, still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind. All things tend toward unity...

...paragraphing, will not be accepted. 1. Sir Roger de Coverley — a character sketch. 2. Chivalry (Ivanhoe). 3. And yet perhaps if countries we compare, And estimate the blessings which they share, Though patriots flatter, still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind; As different...

...revelry and ease; The naked Negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his Gods for all the good they gave. Nature, a mother kind alike to all, Still grants her bliss at Labour's earnest call ; And though rough...

...brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. 4190 The Traveller n Gray There is 4174 4191 The Traveller Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass...

...Where you originally come from, says Oliver Goldsmith's The Traveller (1764), is what finally counts: The patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is, at home. Firstness comes in the various guises explored below. What is prior confers prestige and title; primordial...