 Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws, have melted like a dream; Yet Wykeham's works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream.  Middle-age period - Seite 7von Walter Farquhar Hook - 1867Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1873 - 496 Seiten
...his work, than the glowing words of one of his own scholars, a distinguished poet of our own day.1 " Nations and thrones and reverend laws have melted...fifty their rolling course have sped, Since the first sage-clad scholar to Wykeham's feet was led, And still his seventy faithful boys in these presumptuous... | |
 | 1860 - 718 Seiten
...Hall on the six last Saturdays of the " long half" before "evening bells;" and at the July festival: Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws, have melted...rolling course have sped, Since the first serge-clad scliolar to Wvkeliam's feet was led: And still his seventy faithful boys, in these presumptuous dnys,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1860 - 720 Seiten
...Hall on the six last Saturdays of the " long half" before "evening bells;" and at the July festival: Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws, have melted...fresh beside the crystal stream; Four hundred years aud fifty their rolling course have sped. Since the first serge-clad scholar to Wykeham's feet was... | |
 | Howard Staunton - 1865 - 622 Seiten
...WINCHESTER. * . / " MANNERS MAKYTH MAN." CHAPTER I.— HISTORICAL. " Four hundred years and seventv-one their rolling course have sped, Since the first serge-clad scholar to Wykeham's feet was led ; And stil! his seventy faithful boys, in these presumptuous days, Learn the old truth, speak the old words,... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1878 - 558 Seiten
...institutions. Only ten years previously Lord Sclborne had been able to write, and with literal accuracy, — " Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws have melted like a dream, Yet Wykeham's works are fresh and green, beside the crystal stream." They had lasted thus long perhaps, because the boundless,... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1878 - 644 Seiten
...institutions. Only ten years previously Lord Selborne had been able to write, and with literal accuracy,— "Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws have melted like a dream, Yet Wykeham's works are fresh and green, beside the crystal stream." They had lasted thus long perhaps, because the boundless,... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 Seiten
...the daily praise, the nurture in the Word, Have not in vain ascended up before the gracious Lord : f all, And worthy seemed: Tresh beside the crystal stream. Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped Since... | |
 | 1884 - 656 Seiten
...hearUsick child's low cry : Is it life ? or is it death ? SARAH D. HOBART. 552 8to ACADEMY ENDOWMENTS. Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws have melted...rolling course have sped Since the first serge-clad seholar to Wykebam's feet was led : And still his seventy faithful boys in these presumptuous days... | |
 | 1884 - 804 Seiten
...long as the cathedral which owes so much to him still towers above the watered valley of the Itchen. ' Nations and thrones and reverend laws have melted like a dream, Yet Wykelmm's works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream." The Authors of Historic Winchester.... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1886 - 470 Seiten
...the good kindly hearted old bishop to whom the glorious cathedral owes so much of its grandeur — Nations and thrones and reverend laws have melted...works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream. The weather as we progressed looked more and more threatening. Wreathing, wrathful, jagged-edged storm... | |
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