 | William Ewart Gladstone - Great Britain - 1866 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - Legislators - 1866 - 256 pages
...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... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Netherlands - 1868 - 896 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1869 - 746 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Kent - Cabinet officers - 1869 - 358 pages
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - Lee, Robert, 1806-1872 - 1870 - 420 pages
...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.... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - Great Britain - 1870 - 388 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Collyer - Sermons, American - 1871 - 384 pages
...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... | |
 | Elias Nason, Thomas Russell - 1876 - 474 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
