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" Above the rest, majestically great, Behold the infant Atlas of the state, The matchless miracle of modern days ; In whom Britannia to the world displays A sight to make surrounding nations stare ; A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care... "
Life of ... William Pitt - Página 283
por Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1862
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The Rolliad: In Two Parts ; Probationary Odes for the Laureatship ; and ...

1799 - 574 páginas
...infant Atlas of the state, The matchless miracle of modern days, In whom Britannia to the world displays A sight to make surrounding nations stare : A kingdom trusted to a school-boy's care. It is to be observed to the credit of our author, that, although his political principles are unquestionably...
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Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time, Volumen1

Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 472 páginas
...Atlas of the state, The matchless miracle of modern days ; In whom Britannia to the world displays A sight to make surrounding nations stare ; A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care !" Early in July, this "schoolboy" introduced his " East India Bill ;" and nearly the whole month was...
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Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time, Volumen1

Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 472 páginas
...Atlas of the state, The matchless miracle of modern days ; In whom Britannia to the world displays A sight to make surrounding nations stare ; A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care ! " Early in July, this " schoolboy" introduced his " East India Bill ;" and nearly the whole month...
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Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time, Volumen1

Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 466 páginas
...Atlas of the state, The matchless miracle of modern days ; In whom Britannia to the world displays A sight to make surrounding nations stare ; A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care I" Early in July, this "schoolboy" introduced his " East India Bill ;" and nearly the whole month was...
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A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Volumen2,Parte1

John Kay - 1838 - 466 páginas
...Atlas of the State ; The matchless miracle of modern days, In whom Britannia to the world displays A sight to make surrounding nations stare — A kingdom trusted to a school-hoy's care !" Of the Minister's aptitude for business, comprehensive mind, and astonishing powers...
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine and Review

1852 - 586 páginas
...of Rockingkam, vol. ii. p. 295. And Wm. Pitt, we are told, was designated " the boy-minister," — " A sight to make surrounding nations stare, A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care." — ROLLIAD. Nevertheless, Mr. Pitt far eclipsed many of the seniles who followed him. After all, however,...
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Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and His Contemporaries: With ..., Volumen2

George Thomas Earl of Albemarle - 1852 - 504 páginas
...allowed his words to go unretracted, and, in less than two years, he displayed, in his own person — " A sight to make surrounding nations stare — A kingdom trusted to a school-boy's care " f The other candidate, to whom I would allude, is Admiral Keppel, who had represented the Borough...
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The Life and Times of Charles James Fox, Volumen2

Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 396 páginas
...infant Atlas of the state, The matchless miracle of modern days, In whom Britannia to the world displays A sight to make surrounding nations stare, A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care." From Mr. George Ellis, too, came those admirable verses on the Marquis of Graham, who had incautiously...
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The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of ..., Volumen1

Thomas Erskine May - 1862 - 488 páginas
...his own ambition." — Parl. Hist., xxiv. 277. In the Rolliad, his youth was thus ridiculed: — " A sight to make surrounding nations stare, — A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care." of the Land-tax Bill for two days, in order, as Mr. Fox avowed, that it might not " go out of their...
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Traits of Character and Notes of Incident in Bible Story

Francis Jacox - 1873 - 516 páginas
...year later, and we have in the Rolliad this couplet, commemorative of Mr. Pitt as jeune premier :— " A sight to make surrounding nations stare, A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care." But let us vary the range of our illustrations, such as they are. Scott's veteran crusader, Ralph Genvil,...
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