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Presently Nan, who had taken off Britannia's dress, put on her green velvet riding-habit, and Jimmy could hear the band playing close by, and he guessed that the performance was soon going to begin. 'You can go to bed whenever you like, said Nan, before she left the van. 'Thank you, he answered, and when she had gone he stood at the door looking out into the darkness.
In his 'Shepherd's Pipe, a series of 'Eclogues' Browne follows this plan; but 'Britannia's Pastorals' contains rambling stories of Hamadryads and Oreads; figures which are too shadowy to seem real, yet stand in exquisite woodland landscapes.
As time went on Whigs of all classes boasted of the superiority of England, especially when they travelled in Europe. "We envy not the warmer clime that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies ... 'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's Isle And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile." Addison's travels are full of reflections of this sort.
Brown, in his Britannia's Pastorals, gives a picture of the kind of scenery to which I allude: " A pleasant mead Where fairies often did their measures tread; Which in the meadows make such circles green, As if with garlands it had crowned been. Within one of these rounds was to be seen A hillock rise, where oft the fairy queen At twilight sat."
Soon Britannia's wooden walls were seen veering into line and preparing for action; America's ranged in the same order, waiting the dread moment.
Britannia's mournful anticipation, that 'The shroud enwinding this my son is mine! should the modern generation depart from the track of him who proved himself the giant in mainly supporting her glory was, no doubt, a high pitch of the note of Conservatism. But considering, that Dr.
Down by the Docks, anybody drunk will quarrel with anybody drunk or sober, and everybody else will have a hand in it, and on the shortest notice you may revolve in a whirlpool of red shirts, shaggy beards, wild heads of hair, bare tattooed arms, Britannia's daughters, malice, mud, maundering, and madness.
Do away with every emblem of slavery; throw off the Kilmarnock cap, and adopt in its stead, like rational men, Britannia's cap of liberty. Much difficulty must be felt in getting rid of slavery.
To his persuasive argument that they enter the royal service with promise of quick promotion, they turned a deaf ear although they were wonderfully taken with him. He was a gentle, soft-spoken young man with a boyish smile who blushed when pressed to talk of his own exploits against the Spanish, the Dutch, and the French in Britannia's wooden walls.
I am not the daughter nor grand-daughter of a British officer, but I could look with pride upon the arms and accoutrements adorning the study walls, and feel a wave of emotion break over me and fire my soul with a pride that can only be experienced by one of Britannia's children." "Hear, hear," cried Josie Jordan, springing to her feet, and seizing the speaker by the hand.
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