| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 Seiten
...in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men () iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall' u at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...Wellington. Stanza 4. O good gray head which all men knew. Ibid. TENNYSON. — RICHARDS. — TUPPER. 555 That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Ode on the Dtath vf 'the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 4. In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.... | |
| F G. Marchant - 1883 - 422 Seiten
...in saving common sense, And, aз the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, О iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 Seiten
...in saving common-sense, Aud, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true orcnBion true, O fall'u at length that tower of strength Which Blood fonr-squarc to all the winds that... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - 1886 - 386 Seiten
...characterized by wcight and strength, though not necessarily by loudness — eg : O good gray head which all men knew ; O voice from which their omens...fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four square to all the winds that blew ! — Ode on the Duke of Wellington : Tennyson. And sweet, calm... | |
| West Virginia Bar Association - 1886 - 820 Seiten
...and the County and Circuit Courts caused the resolutions passed to lie spread upon their records. "0 voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron...occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength, That stood four square to all tM winds that blew !" MORTUARY ROLL, OF THE WEST VIRGINIA BAR ASSOCIATION.... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1886 - 768 Seiten
...the canvas named after the lines by Tennyson, in his "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington," " That Tower of Strength which stood Foursquare to all the Winds that blew." It is a landscape representing Urquhart Castle, a fortress high on a promontory of Loch Ness, under... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 508 Seiten
...common-sense, And. as tho greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which nil men knew. O voice from which their omens all men drew, O Iron nerve to true occasion true, Of alien at length thattower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such... | |
| United States. Congress - 1889 - 124 Seiten
...of his famous alliteration, ' ' fifty-four forty or fight." It reminds one of the words of Tennyson: That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. In the few further moments allotted to me I shall not speak of him in political capacities as legislator,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Frederick James Rowe, William Trego Webb - 1890 - 178 Seiten
...in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens...the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. 40 The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. v. All is over and done : Bender thanks to the Giver, England,... | |
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