 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. Should banded unions persecute Opinion, and induce a time When single thought is civil crime, And individual... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. Should banded unions persecute Opinion, and induce a time When single thought is civil crime, And individual... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 260 pages
...will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees...diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. Should banded unions persecute Opinion, and induce a time When single thought is civil crime, And individual... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1898 - 248 pages
...world : — A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, "Where freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent. "Where faction seldom...diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. The three great Hierarchs of English poetry are Shakspere, Milton, and Tennyson. Each of these great... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...slowly down From precedent to precedent: Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. Should banded unions persecute Opinion, and induce a time When single thought is civil crime, And individual... | |
 | James White - France - 1859 - 582 pages
...quarrel, nor idle in a just one ; which protects and guards the blessings which the intellect has won. -** A land of settled government, A land of just and old...thought, Hath time and space to work and spread." Charlemagne is the greatest name in European history, with the exception, perhaps, of Alexander the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...why, though ill at ease. Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom...diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. Should banded unions persecute Opinion, and induce a time When single thought is civil crime, And individual... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, And languish for the purple seas ? It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom...diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. Should banded unions persecute Opinion, and induce a time When single thought is civil crime, And individual... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...region I subsist, Whose spirits fail within the mist, And languish for the purple seas ? It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom...diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. Should banded unions persecute Opinion, and induce a time Where single thought is civil crime, And... | |
 | William Tallack - Religion - 1861 - 326 pages
...the inevitable changes of successive years. Thus has Britain become, under the Divine blessing — " A land of settled government, A land of just and old...diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread." Conservatism and progress must ever combine by a system of good-tempered, mutual compromises, or, at... | |
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That sober-suited Freedom chose. The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction... 
