 | 1897 - 808 pages
...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...august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea." HW LUCY. THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN... | |
 | 462 pages
...and the scutter'd ends Of our tierce world were mixt as friends And brethren in her halls of glass : And statesmen at her council met, Who knew the seasons...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... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1859 - 570 pages
...natural eagerness to enlarge the franchise and to realise MR. TENNYSON'S ideal of a Cabinet : — 1 And statesmen at Her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The buuiids of freedom wider yet " By shaping sorne august decree Which kept Her throne unshaken wtill,... | |
 | 1877 - 564 pages
...yokes with empire, yield you time To make demand of modern rhyme If aught of ancient worth be there, statesmen at her council met, Who knew the seasons...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 pages
...and the scatter'd ends Of our fierce world were mixt as friends And brethren in her halls of glass : And statesmen at her council met, Who knew the seasons...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 - 638 pages
...and our »catterM ends Of our fierce 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,... | |
 | 1851 - 642 pages
...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 throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed hy the inviolate sea." 'I l•nt 1.-= poetry ' —... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1852 - 538 pages
...scattered ends Of our fierce world were mixed as friends And brethren in her halls of glass ; — " ' And statesmen at her council met, Who knew the seasons,...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 pages
...gave her peace ; her land reposed ; A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife and Queen ; ' And statesmen at her council met Who knew...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 pages
...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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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... 
