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... The Story of Gloucestershire - Seite 258von Erica Quest - 1908 - 269 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1897 - 808 Seiten
...the mission assigned to them nearly fifty years ago by Alfred Tennyson. They have known the season when to take " Occasion by the hand, and make The...unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea." HW LUCY. THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE. BY THE HON. JB EUSTI8, LATB... | |
| 462 Seiten
...world 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 broader yet, " By shaping »mc august decree Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon... | |
| 1877 - 564 Seiten
...To make demand of modern rhyme If aught of ancient worth be there, statesmen at her council met, Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.1' JOHN CRAGGS. Litchfield Street, Gateshead. BULWER : A LITERARY PREDICTION. — As two or three... | |
| 1851 - 318 Seiten
...world 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 broader yet, " By shaping some august decree Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon... | |
| 1851 - 642 Seiten
...met Who knew the seasons, wheo to take Occasion hy the hand, and make The bounds of freedom broader yet, " By shaping some august decree Which kept her...unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed hy the inviolate sea." 'I l•nt 1.-= poetry ' — it is more ; it a Miltonianl 576 Hortb... | |
| 1851 - 638 Seiten
...world where mlxt as friends And brethren In her halls of glats ; "And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The buunds of freedum broader yet, " By shaping some augugt decree Which kept her throne unshaken »till,... | |
| Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1852 - 538 Seiten
...mixed 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 broader yet, — " ' By shaping some august decree Which kept her throne unshaken stil , Broad.based... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 404 Seiten
...claims 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 ' By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's... | |
| 1896 - 858 Seiten
...which they sprang, in maintaining the cause of justice and peace throughout the world, and together "take occasion by the hand, and make the bounds of freedom wider yet." We can hardly suppose that the law of the landmark was intended to be confined entirely to fields and... | |
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