 | William Carlos Martyn - 1868 - 896 pages
...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,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...latest day 1 May children of our children say, "She wrought her people lasting good) " Her court wns pure ; her life serene ; God gave her peace ; 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... | |
 | Charles Kent - 1869 - 358 pages
...Laureate's noble celebration of the Reign of Victoria, that he especially was foremost among those — ' 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... | |
 | 1869 - 786 pages
...the case, viz., that stability and content were only to be secured to her Majesty's dominions, when " Statesmen at her council met, Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand." The records of House of Commons' debate are full of instances of • Speaking of knives, and to an... | |
 | 1869 - 746 pages
...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... | |
 | George Alfred Townsend - 1869 - 702 pages
...wrote of Victoria : — "Her court was pure; her lifo screno; God gave her peace ; her land renosed ; A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as mother, wife, and qucen. " And statesmen at her council met, Who know tho seasons, — when to tako Occasion by tho hand,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...noble till the latest day 1 May children of our children say, "She wrought her people lasting good; "Her court was pure; her life serene; God gave her...The bounds of freedom wider yet " By shaping some angust decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed... | |
 | 1901 - 998 pages
...Africa, Egypt, and throughout the Continent of Europe scarcely less than in her own native island. Her Court was pure ; her life serene ; God gave her...reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen. ® The Victorian Age Many of the greatest periods in the history of the world bear the names of individual... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1870 - 384 pages
...his purpose to go on ; but Mr. Tennyson goes on, and, in his description, he adds these lines : — "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... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - 1870 - 420 pages
...— 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.... | |
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Her court was pure ; her life serene ; God gave her peace ; her land reposed ; A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife and Queen ; 142 The Epic 143 " And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by... 
