 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...  Modern Culture - Stran 349uredili: - 1897Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Daniel Moore - 1865
...Royal Personage, will be recalled in this connection : " 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866
...to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife and Queen ; " And statesmen at her conncil 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 stil! Broad-based upon her people's... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1866 - 208 strani
...either in the West or in the East. He was certainly one of the greatest of those statesmen — Who know the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. May only the new school of greater depth, more scrupulous conscience, more anxious temperament, accomplish... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1866 - 336 strani
...these lines, not a whit less worthy of his fame : — " 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, * This is an error. The lines quoted by Lord John Manners are from an earlier work of the Poet, entitled... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1868 - 823 strani
...acknowledged chieftain of the states, to intervene in their behalf with the armed hand.* William was willing "to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet." He only doubted the success of an immediate rising, fearing that the time was not quite ripe. However,... | |
 | 1869
...with them in admiration for the wise heads and strong hands of the statesmen '' Who knew the season when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet ;" and equal with them, also, in all love and reverence for the noble lady who '•bears the white... | |
 | Charles Kent - 1869 - 337 strani
...of Victoria, that he especially was foremost among those — ' statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom broader yet ' By shaping some august decree Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - 1870
...SERMON AT CRATHIE — UNIVERSITY REFORM — CORRESPONDENCE — DIARY — TROUBLE AND SORROW. " Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet." TENNYSON, To the Queen, 1851. AFTER much municipal delay, the Church of the Old Greyfriars' was restored.... | |
 | GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND - 1870
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 139 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... | |
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