 | 1902 - 642 pàgines
...great cause. His notion of true wisdom in statesmanship was that of the late Poet Laureate : — ' to maintain The day against the moment, and the year Against the day.' As a very young man, owing to his exceptional familiarity with French and German, and the confidence... | |
 | 1902 - 874 pàgines
...to a great cause. His notion of true wisdom In statesmanship was that of the late Poet Laureate:— to maintain The day against the moment, and the year Against the day. As a very young man, owing to his exceptional familiarity with French and German, and the confidence... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 pàgines
...Statesman, be thou wise to know The limits of resistance, and the bounds Determining concession. ... be thy heart a fortress to maintain The day against...the year Against the day ; thy voice, a music heard Through all the yells and counter-yells of feud And faction." Hands all Round. " That man's the best... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 916 pàgines
...Irish Bill. Tennyson himself said, in 1892 :' I love Mr. Gladstone, but hate his present Irish policy.' alms. And yet, Nun as she was, the fend And faction, and thy will, a power to make This ever-changing world of circumstance, In changing,... | |
 | Robinson Ellis, Alfred Denis Godley - 1899 - 298 pàgines
...perducunt, unde e nubis penetralibus aureae reddita vox placidumque sonans allabitur auris. F. DE P. XXXV О Patriot Statesman, be thou wise to know The limits...the year Against the day : thy voice, a music, heard Through all the yells and counter-yells of feud And faction ; and thy will, a power to make This ever-changing... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 1002 pàgines
...be thou wise to know The limits of resistance, and the bounds Determining concession ; still be boUl Not only to slight praise but suffer scorn; And be...moment, and the year Against the day ; thy voice, a muse heard Thro' all the yells and counter-yells of feud And faction, and thy will, a power to make... | |
 | William Clark Gordon - 1906 - 274 pàgines
...Queen," 1851. "Poems, p. 220. ""Maud," V, 3, P. 305. " " Dedication of Idylls," p. 3O& "Ibid. -P. 575O Patriot Statesman, be thou wise to know The limits...day; thy voice, a music heard Thro' all the yells and counter yells of feud And faction, and thy will, a power to make This ever-changing world of circumstance,... | |
 | William Clark Gordon - 1906 - 278 pàgines
...destroyed, by such defiance of the past and of the great laws of social development. The, .wise man will maintain The day against the moment, and the year Against the day/" not " expecting all things in an hour." 103 When tyrants are in power, abuses are suffered, but such... | |
 | Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot - 1911 - 366 pàgines
...mind. The iron must be beaten whilst it is hot. The poet's conception of the statesman as one who would maintain ' The day against the moment, and the year Against the day. . . .' is becoming more and more difficult of realisation, and when Disraeli, taking advantage of the... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1896 - 610 pàgines
...Doctor. (c) The Possibility of Abolishing War. 2. Express in prose the following passage : " 0 patriotic statesman, be thou wise to know The limits of resistance...; thy voice, a music heard Thro' all the yells and counter yells of feud And faction, and thy will a power to make This ever-changing world of circumstance... | |
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PATRIOT Statesman, be thou wise to know The limits of resistance, and the bounds Determining concession ; still be bold Not only to slight praise but suffer scorn ; :And be thy heart a fortress to maintain The day against the moment, and the year Against... 