 | William Ellsworth Smythe - 1921 - 328 strani
...found millions of independent homes, deepen and broaden the basis of our institutions, and literally "take Occasion by the hand and make the bounds of freedom wider yet." Even so, could there be a sweeter service to humanity than to raise a shield for old age and widowhood... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - 1924 - 186 strani
...he was also a vigilant watchman on the tower, a bold, sagacious, and fearless statesman, "Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of Freedom wider yet." This biography is not intended to compass the details of the Great War. We cannot even summarize the... | |
 | Armistead Churchill Gordon - 1925 - 460 strani
...mighty past, shall under God win her way to the shining goal, and as her great laureate nobly sings: Take Occasion by the hand and make The bounds of Freedom wider yet'." III. An important task which engaged his interest in the later years of his life was his examination... | |
 | John William Mackail - 1926 - 272 strani
...were mixt as friends And brethren in her halls of glass. And statesmen at her Council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. In somewhat a similar spirit, Tennyson was now setting himself to extend the bounds of his own poetry,... | |
 | 1917 - 516 strani
...born. Lyndhurst was one of those whom Tennyson wrote in 1851: And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet, By shaping some august decree Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will.... | |
 | George Dawes Hicks - 1928 - 184 strani
...destinies of nations have failed. Will it rise to the height of its vast opportunities, and know " the seasons when to take occasion by the hand, and make the bounds of freedom wider yet ? " It is hard, if not impossible, to say; but even those who most of all wish it well have, at the... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 504 strani
...is dead. We have with us the exception, the politician that is a statesman who is alive, who "knows the seasons, when to take occasion by the hand and make the bonds of freedom wider yet." The greatest thing in this world is time. The greatest hindrance to all... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer, Marianne Moore - 1901 - 982 strani
...thought in the dedicatory stanzas '• To the Queen ": " And statesmen at her councils met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand and make The bounds of freedom wider yet " By shaping some august decree Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's... | |
 | 1901 - 972 strani
...to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen ; " And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet "By shaping some august decree Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's... | |
 | 1911 - 944 strani
...course, is true of the famous stanzas. "To the Queen": — And statesmen at her Council met AVho knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bonds of freedom wider yet Bv shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based... | |
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And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet 'By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by... 
