 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 572 Seiten
...apprentice, I wiii gie you the refusai o* them." — Part IL B I6y. LIBRARY EDITION. VOL. IV. HOB EOT. For why ? Because the good old rule Sufficeth them ; the simple plan, Tbat they should take who hare the power, And they should keep who can. ROB liov's Ciu vK. . . . WorimrA.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1856 - 538 Seiten
...puzzled, blinded thus, we lose Distinctions that are plain and few: These find I graven on my heart: Thai tells me what to do. The Creatures see of flood and...Sufficeth them, the simple Plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can. All freakishness of mind is checked; He tamed", who... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...may be again. The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. Rob Roy's Grave. St. 9. Because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Yarrow Unvisited. The swan on still St. Mary's Lake... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 Seiten
...stormy days, when the principles of policy were summed up hi my friend Mr Wordsworth's lines: — 0 the good old rule Sufficeth them ; the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." NOTE 35, page 427With wild majestic port and tone,... | |
 | 1857 - 834 Seiten
...secure to him. A state of confusion and violence is the consequence. Lawlessness prevails. "And why f Because the good old rule Sufficeth them ; the simple plan That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." But there is still another and more sacred duty... | |
 | William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 Seiten
...of the Catholics, to have carried into practice the principle expressed in Wordsworth's lines — " The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." closing hour, and never was any thing less. If it... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 Seiten
...Lear, iii 6. What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so PR, iv. 363. still she retains — hecause the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. WORDSWORTH. ' Roh Roy s Grate. The fragrant air its... | |
 | 1857 - 640 Seiten
...exception to the law which, Wordsworth says, prevails among ' all the creatures of flood and field.' ' The good old rule Sufficeth them — the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.' But the black rat has kept more than is commonly... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 448 Seiten
...stormy days, when the principles of policy were summed up iu my friend Mr Wordsworth's lines : — ' The good old rule Sufficeth them ; the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.' NOTE G. ' His plaited hair in elf-locks spread,'... | |
 | William Maginn - 1857 - 524 Seiten
...of the Catholics, to have carried into practice the principle expressed in Wordsworth's lines — " The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." closing hour, and never was any thing less. If it... | |
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For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can. 
