 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 518 σελίδες
..."THE BIRD-WORLD," "THE MHDITEBRANHAW," "WOMEN OF PASHIOJT," ETC. <( Statesmen, Who know the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet." — Tennyson. &fc.,?.J IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. ' LONDON : TINSLBY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE ST., STRAND.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 522 σελίδες
..."THE BIRD-WORLD," "THE imniTERUiMun," " WOUIN or »ISHIOK," ETC. " Statesmen, Who know tbo seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider ja(.."—Tcungion. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON : TLNSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE ST., STRAND. 1878.... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 362 σελίδες
...supplications, ought we not also to thank God for England, that " Statesmen in her councils met, Who knew the season when to take Occasion by the hand, a.nd make The bounds of freedom broader yet, By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Firm based upon her... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 σελίδες
...biographers, but biographers of very different merit. The men who among ourselves have known "The seasons when to take Occasion by the hand and make The bounds of freedom wider yet," have not been forgotten. We have Lord Nugent's " Memoirs of John Hampden," who, with Pym and Vane,... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1881 - 226 σελίδες
...lines, 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, said the A thencsum, will live and be had in recollection with the glorious lines themselves.1... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1881 - 1188 σελίδες
...helpless. The Poet Laureate had said — •• 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." If the poet had confined those lines to England, they might have some application ; but he did not... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1881 - 488 σελίδες
...who, in defense of the right, have led the front of battle — of statesmen, "Who knew the seasons when to take occasion by the hand and make the bounds of freedom wider yet." But this heart-rending tragedy is the saddest, most pathetic event in onr history. Its effect on our... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - 1884 - 326 σελίδες
...glass." It is an incident worth recalling that the lines — "And statesmen at her council met Who knew the season when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of Freedom wider yet," was once quoted by Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons with electrical effect. Lord John Manners,... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - 1884 - 326 σελίδες
...glass." It is an incident worth recalling that the lines — " And statesmen at her council met Who knew the season when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of Freedom wider yet," was once quoted by Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons with electrical effect. Lord John Manners,... | |
 | 1885 - 552 σελίδες
...THE HON. JAMES SERVICE, PREMIER OF VICTORIA. " 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." — Tennyson. " 'Tis a many-gifted man, Sound in judgment, quick in plan; Making way, where others... | |
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