 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...  Self Culture - Page 3491897Full view - About this book
 | North American review - 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 bounds of freedom wider yet By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's... | |
 | Fashion - 462 pages
...were mixt as friends And brethren in her halls of glass : 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 »mc august decree Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1877 - 564 pages
...make demand of modern rhyme If aught of ancient worth be there, statesmen at her council met, Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion 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... | |
 | Fashion - 1851 - 318 pages
...were mixt as friends And brethren in her halls of glass : 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... | |
 | 1851 - 638 pages
...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,... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - Europe - 1852 - 538 pages
...as friends And brethren in her halls of glass ; — " ' 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 stil , Broad.based... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...to reverence 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 august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - Europe - 1859 - 510 pages
...as friends And brethren in her halls of glass ; — " ' 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, — w ' By shaping some august decree Which kept her throne unshaken stil t Broad-based... | |
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