 | William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 404 pages
...climb To ruin the great work of Time, And cast the kingdoms old Into another mould. Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights...or break, As men are strong or weak), Nature, that hated emptiness, Allows of penetration less, And therefore must make room Where greater spirits come.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 480 pages
...climb To nun the great work of time, And cast the kingdoms old Into another mould ! Though justice against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights...all the civil war, Where his were not the deepest sear ? And Hampton shows what part He had of wiser art ; Where, twining subtle fears with hope, He... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1892 - 448 pages
...and science. There are many passages in the Commedia which may be compared with the following : — Nature that hateth emptiness Allows of penetration...therefore must make room Where greater spirits come. or again with : — And to all states not free Shall climacteric be. An apology ought perhaps to be... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 530 pages
...described with a touch in the lines 'Though Justice against Fate complain And plead the ancient rights n vain (But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak).' .Better than anything else in our language this poem gives an idea of a grand Horatian measure, as... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1896 - 520 pages
...and dispassionate. The spirit of Revolution is described with a touch in the lines 'Though Justice against Fate complain And plead the ancient rights...those do hold or break As men are strong or weak).' Better than anything else in our language this poem gives an idea of a grand Horatian measure, as well... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1896 - 334 pages
...Kingdoms old 35 Into another mould. Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient Bights in vain— But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak. 40 Nature, that hateth emptiness, Allows of penetration less, And therefore must make room Where greater... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - English poetry - 1897 - 522 pages
...climb To ruin the great work of Time, And cast the kingdoms old Into another mould. Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights...or break, As men are strong or weak), Nature, that hated emptiness, Allows of penetration less, And therefore must make room Where greater spirits come.... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...climb To ruin the great work of time, And cast the kingdoms old Into another mold I Though justice against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights...not the deepest scar ? And Hampton shows what part Where, twining subtle fears with hope, He wove a net of such a scope That Charles himself might chase... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 444 pages
...climb To ruin the great work of time, And cast the kingdoms old Into another mold 1 Though justice against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights...not the deepest scar ? And Hampton shows what part Where, twining subtle fears with hope, He wove a net of such a scope That Charles himself might chasa... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...climb To ruin the great work of Time, And cast the kingdoms old Into another mould ; Though Justice against Fate complain. And plead the ancient rights...therefore must make room, Where greater spirits come. Such a recognition of de facto authority does not necessarily imply abandonment of principle : Marvell... | |
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Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak. 
