...see, [20] Be as Ill-natur'd and as Proud as we : Call themselves English, Foreigners despise, Be surly like us all, and just as wise. Thus from a Mixture of all kinds began, 335 That Het'rogeneous Thing, An Englishman : In eager Rapes, and furious Lust begot, Betwixt a Painted...

...see, 330 Be as Ill-natur'd and as Proud as we : Call themselves English, Foreigners despise, Be surly like us all, and just as wise. Thus from a Mixture...Kinds began, That Het'rogeneous Thing, An Englishman: 335 In eager Rapes, and furious Lust begot, Betwixt a Painted Britton and a Scot: Whose gend'ring Offspring...

...believe themselves "gentle" because of such purity. The argument appealed to the new "Americans" of 1778. Thus from a Mixture of all Kinds began. That Het'rogeneous...eager Rapes, and furious Lust begot, Betwixt a Painted Britton and a Scot. . . . A True-Born Englishman's a Contradiction, In Speech an Irony, in Fact a Fiction...

...Tutchin's attack on William in his pamphlet The Foreigners ( 1 700) . What Defoe actually says is, "Thus from a Mixture of all kinds began, / That Het'rogeneous...Rapes, and furious Lust begot, / Betwixt a Painted Britton and a Scot" (Part 1, 11. 279-282) . Emerson copied die first couplet of this passage into Journal...

...pretensions. He regards it as his task to brush history against the grain. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations Thus from a Mixture of all kinds began, That Het'rogeneous...eager Rapes, and furious Lust begot, Betwixt a Painted Britton and a Scot: Whose gend'ring Offspring quickly learnt to bow, And yoke their Heifers to the...

...meet up in England. 13 And what of that 'heterogeneous thing, an Englishman', as Defoe called him? In eager rapes, and furious lust begot, Betwixt a...Briton and a Scot: Whose gend'ring offspring quickly learnt to bow, And yoke their heifers to the Roman plough: From whence a mongrel half-bred race there...

...English, none has come into being, perhaps for the reason that Defoe adduced in The True-Born Englishman: Thus from a Mixture of all kinds began, That Het'rogeneous...eager Rapes, and furious Lust begot, Betwixt a Painted Britton and a Scot: Whose gend'ring Offspring quickly learnt to bow, And yoke their Heifers to the...

...III, reminded his island nation that the "True-Born Englishman" was but a "heterogeneous thing . . . / In eager rapes, and furious lust begot / Betwixt a Painted Briton and a Scot" — someone whose "we II -extracted blood" also contained corpuscles of Roman, Irish, Welsh, Saxon,...

...III, reminded his island nation that the "True-Born Englishman" was but a "heterogeneous thing . . . / In eager rapes, and furious lust begot / Betwixt a Painted Briton and a Scot"—someone whose "well-extracted blood" also contained corpuscles of Roman, Irish, Welsh, Saxon,...

...English origins can be traced back not to a splendid pedigree but to a debased heritage of barbarism: Thus from a Mixture of all Kinds began, That Het'rogeneous...eager Rapes, and furious Lust begot, Betwixt a Painted Britain and a Scot. Whose gend'ring Off-spring quickly learn'd to bow, And yoke their Heifers to the...