...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...

...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...

...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,...

...years, equal 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...

...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...

...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 angust decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed...

...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....

...his description, he adds these lines : — "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...

...service to England second to none. He was " The statesman in the council set, Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet." And so, I think, if the eldest of all, in his grim ftruggle to get the blessing of success — for...

...to accept joyfully and bravely the responsibilities of our position, and, like them, be ever ready ' To take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.' " To the raid of John Brown into Virginia in October (1859), causing wild excitement through the South,...