...estimate of its literary quality. novi. "inexperienced." Cf. Byron, Childe Harold, Canto II. 84 : — A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dust. CATO MAIOR DE SENECTUTE. Temeritas est videlicet florentis aetatis, prudentia sengscentis. VII. 21...

...the Huns were sweeping over Belgium, for example, one often thought of Byron's description of Greece: A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust. —Childe Harold, II, 84 But at this there would rush into one's mind as a wholesome antidote those...

...Greece, thy living page! Attest it many a deathless age!'' or, again, into enduring laments like this: "A thousand years scarce serve to form a State; An hour may lay it in the dust; and when Can man its shattered splendour renovate, Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate? And yet how lovely...

...These two things shall come to thee in one moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. " A thousand years scarce serve to form a state, An hour may lay it in the dust." — BYRON. ISA. LVI. 9, 11. All ye beasts of the field, come to devour . . . These are shepherds that...

...still. Institutions unsuited to a people's traditions and character may only jeopardize its fortunes : A thousand years scarce serve to form a State, An hour may lay it in the dust : and when Can man its shattered splendour renovate, Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate ? Childe Harold,...

...handing them up. For the most characteristic quotation of his late Imperial days he went to Byron : — A thousand years scarce serve to form a State, An hour may lay it in the dust. Few of Mr. Chamberlain's speeches on tariff reform were complete without poetry. Frequently he quoted...

...fellow-men. And let the fiery, gleaming, torch portray The pioneer blazing forth the way. VII. THE PATRIOT. "A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust." — BYRON. Here let the Stars and Stripes forever wave Their folds in freedom o'er a patriot's grave....

...are with hearts endued, When Grecian mothers shall give birth to men, Then mayst thou be restored, but not till then. ' A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust." //. 84. " Land of lost gods and godlike men." //. #5. For two years after the publication of these...

...the Huns were sweeping over Belgium, for example, one often thought of Byron's description of Greece: A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust. — Chtide Harold, II, 84 But at this there would rush into one's mind as a wholesome antidote those...

...the Huns were sweeping over Belgium, for example, one often thought of Byron's description of Greece: A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dus t. —Childe Harold, II, 84 But at this there would rush into one's mind as a wholesome antidote...