 | James Smith - Circle-squaring - 1869 - 459 pages
...said : — u You are now invited to do honour to a kind of royalty, which is seldom very peace/idly acknowledged until he who wins and adorns it has ceased...his throne, he, at least, is a conqueror whom the conq^iered bless, and the more despotically he enthrals, the dearer he becomes to the hearts of men.... | |
 | Charles Kent - Authors, English - 1872 - 290 pages
...when proposing the toast of the evening in words of eloquence worthy of himself and of his theme, " Happy is the man who makes clear his title deeds to...genius, while he yet lives to enjoy the gratitude and reverence of those whom he has subjected to his sway. Though it is by conquest that he achieves his... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1874 - 444 pages
...the empire which his thoughts bequeath to his name. Happy is the man who makes clear his title-deeds to the royalty of genius while he yet lives to enjoy the gratitude and reverence of those whom he has subjected to his sway. Though it is by conquest that he achieves his... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pages
...right hand at the moment the words were uttered), "Happy is the man who makes clear his title-deeds to the royalty of genius while he yet lives to enjoy the gratitude and reverence of those whom he has subjected to his sway." With Burns it was otherwise. His royalty as... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1920 - 296 pages
...the empire which his thoughts bequeath to his name. Happy is the man who makes clear his title-deeds to the royalty of genius while he yet lives to enjoy the gratitude and reverence of those whom he has subjected to his sway. Though it is by conquest that he achieves his... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 504 pages
...the empire which his thoughts bequeath to his name. Happy is the man who makes clear his title-deeds to the royalty of genius while he yet lives to enjoy the gratitude and reverence of those whom he has subjected to his sway. Though it is by conquest that he achieves his... | |
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Happy is the man who makes clear his title-deeds to the royalty of genius while he yet lives to enjoy the gratitude and reverence of those whom he has subjected to his sway. Though it is by conquest that he achieves his throne, he at least is a conqueror... 