 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 496 pages
...Listen — but do not look back," — CHAP. XX. : ; ,-, CH\I;! ;•:-• BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BAHT. For why? Because the good old rule Sufficeth them ; the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, At'd they should keep who can. Red Ray's Grave— WORDSWORTH. HA'.0l'HIIiIiKK UHl... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 pages
...those that travel on the wind ! With them no strife can last ; they live In peace, and peace of mind. For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth...lesson that is quickly learned, A signal this which all can see ! Thus nothing here provokes the strong To wanton cruelty. All freakishness of mind ¡s... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 622 pages
...strife can last ; they live In peace, in peace of mind. For why ?— because the good old rule Snmceth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have...the power, And they should keep who can. A lesson which is quickly learned, A signal this whicn all can see ! Thus nothing here provokes the strong To... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...those that travel on the wind ! With them no strife can last ; they live In peace, and peace of mind. " For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth...should keep who can. "A lesson that is quickly learned, j A signal this which all can see ! Thus nothing here provokes the strong To wanton cruelty. ' ' All... | |
 | 1921 - 724 pages
...stories of rapine, pillage, and murder. There the battle has ever been to the >trong. There, ever, The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. The share of the Near East in all this welter of... | |
 | Edwin Russell Jackman, Reub A. Long - 1964 - 444 pages
...of the world. William Wordsworth's oft-quoted lines apply well to most of the animal kingdom: . . . The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. This seems to be wandering away from chipmunks. Two... | |
 | 1878 - 1178 pages
...ancestors were wholly destitute of a sense of right, and could have no notion of a claim to exist. For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them — the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. The other is a state not different from this in degree,... | |
 | Bertram M. Gross - 1980 - 450 pages
...Abundance of Shortages" in "Friendly Fascist Economics" (chapter 10). 3 The Mysterious Establishment The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan That they should take who have the power And they should keep who can. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There are no stories or magazine... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...ones must not unwatch'd go. Claudius, Hamlet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan. That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet You only... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1991 - 942 pages
...tidal current runs most strong!)'. 500.2—4 "The good . . . can."] In Wordsworth, the stanza reads: "For why? — because the good old rule / Sufficeth them, the simple plan, / That they should take, who have the power, / And they should keep who can." 503.31-32 true . . . bush."] The proverb is from... | |
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For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can. 
