 Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws, have melted like a dream ; Yet Wykeham's works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream. Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped Since the first serge-clad scholar to Wykeham's feet was...  Northern Europe - Page 250by Charles Francis King - 1897 - 353 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1873 - 496 pages
...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...works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream ; Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped, Since the first sage-clad scholar to... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1852 - 574 pages
...waste of years, wherein are no holidays — " Domum, domum, dulee domum",1 home, home, sweet home ! Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws, have melted...works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream ; Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped, Since the first serge-clad scholar to... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1852 - 540 pages
...waste of years, wherein are no holidays — " Domum, domum, dulce domum",1 home, home, sweet home ! Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws, have melted...works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream ; Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped, Since the first serge-clad scholar to... | |
 | Education - 1860 - 718 pages
...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...works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream; Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped, Since the first serge-clad scliolar to... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - Bishops - 1867 - 548 pages
...case, then was Chicheley not only among the most eminent, but also the first of Wykeham's sons : — " Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws have melted...works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream : Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped, Since the first serge-clad scholar to... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1860 - 720 pages
...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...works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream; Four hundred years aud fifty their rolling course have sped. Since the first serge-clad scholar to... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1860 - 726 pages
...half" before "evening bells;" and at the July festival: Nations, and throne?, and reverend law?, hnve melted like a dream, Yet Wykeham's works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream; Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped, Since the first serge-clad scholar to... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - Children's poetry - 1865 - 342 pages
...the daily praise, the nurture in the Word, Have not in vain ascended up before the gracious Lord : Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws, have melted...works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream. Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped Since the first serge-clad scholar to Wykeham's... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...the nurture in the Word, Have not in vain ascended up before the gracious LORD: Xations, and thronps, and reverend laws, have melted like a dream ; Yet...works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream. Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped Since the first serge-clad scholar to Wykeham's... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1878 - 644 pages
...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,... | |
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