It adds a great deal to the force of an opinion to know that there is a man of mark and likelihood behind it.
Others may use the ocean as their road,
Only the English make it their abode:—
We tread the billows with a steady foot.—Waller.
Campbell adopts the thoughts of these italicized words in the Mariners of England:—
Britannia needs no bulwark,
No towers along the steep:
Her march is on the mountain-waves,
Her home is on the deep.