 | George Pryme - 1870 - 432 ページ
...King over the water." The 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 thing8." I had a... | |
 | 1872 - 592 ページ
...pne-Tennysonian poets ? JONATHAN BOUCHIER. NAMES OF AUTHORS WANTED. — " God bless the king ! God bless the 'faith's defender ' ! God bless No harm in blessing...— God bless us all !— is quite another thing. Is it known who is the author of these lines '! They are twice quoted in Dr. Brewer's Dictionary of... | |
 | 1872 - 602 ページ
...This clever equivoque is not accurately printed. The more correct version is the following : — " God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender. God...— the Pretender ; Who that Pretender is, and who is Kinp, God bless us all — that '.- quite another thing." These lines, " intended to allay the violence... | |
 | Proverbial folk-lore - 1874 - 176 ページ
...the water).' Put into a rhyming form it used to run in this fashion. God bless the King ! God bless the Faith's defender ; God bless, — no harm in blessing...Pretender ! Who that Pretender is, and who that King, Why, bless us all, is quite another thing ! — Dr. Byron. Let us trust that King Mob, who is now 'that... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - 188 ページ
...the water) !' Put into a rhyming form it used to run in this fashion. God bless the King! God bless the Faith's Defender; God bless, — no harm in blessing...that King, God bless us all, is quite another thing ! — Dr. Byron. Let us trust that King Mob, who is now 'that Pretender,' spite of all ominous signs,... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1875 - 580 ページ
...he escaped the difficulty, or hushed the rising storm, by flinging out a clever stanza, impromptu : 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 Byrom... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 ページ
...And but herself admits no parallel. Massinger, Duke of Milan, Act iv. Sc. 3. 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... | |
 | Charles Mathew Clode - 1875 - 906 ページ
...1742. 1 A writer in the " Sole* and Qutriei," No. 129, asserts that the lines— " God Mess the kins, I mean the faith's Defender, God bless, no harm in blessing — the Pretender; Who that Pretender ig, and who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another tiling." " intended to allay the violence... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 ページ
...clever Equivoque is not generally accurately printed. The correct version is the following : — " God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender, God...— the Pretender : Who that Pretender is, and who is King, — God bless us all, that's quite another thing." These lines, " intended to allay the violence... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 592 ページ
...rendered legible Dr. Byrom's celebrated lines engraved thereon — God bless the King !— God bless the Faith's defender ! God bless — No harm in blessing...King, — God bless us all — is quite another thing. I had time enough to study this effusion of the Jacobite muse, while the Justice was engaged in the... | |
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God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender! God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender. Who that pretender is, and who that king, God bless us all! is quite another thing. 
