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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. "
The World's Work: A History of Our Time - Page 12897
1910
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The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland: To which are Added Dialect and Other ...

Sidney Gilpin - 1866 - 594 pages
...sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting Spring. CUMBERLAND BORDER BALLADS. For why ? — the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can. — WORDSWORTH. HUGHIE THE GRAEME. [This ballad originally...
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English literature and composition

Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 pages
...Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. (7) ' For why ? the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power And they should keep who can.' (8) 'A mighty maze, but not without a plan.' (9)...
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Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of ..., Volume 1

Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867 - 772 pages
...nomination called Democratic — a nomination based upon the idea of Sherwood Forest : " 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." I have nothing to say, at present, of the candidates...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton. Shelley, Queen MaI, in. 212. The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave. Power ! 'tis the favourite...
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Y Traethodydd: am y fleyddyn ..., Volume 20

1868 - 384 pages
...Ymddengys mai y rheol yn awr, i fesur helaeth, ydyw, " Trecha' treisied, a'r gwana' gwaedded." For why, the good old rule Sufficeth them ; the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Eitliaf rheol i Bob Roy a'i garn-lladron ; ond rheol...
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Waves on the ocean of life, Issue 33

mrs. Ward - 1869 - 356 pages
...arrange previous to his death. Alexander and his mother had possession, and kept all— " 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." G CHAPTER XII. PREVIOUS to Mr Rutherford's death,...
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Treasury of choice quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...may be again. The Solitary Reaprr. The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. md. Because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Rob Ro^s Grave. Stan2a 9. The swan on still St. Mary's...
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The book of poetry for schools and families [ed.] by W. Davis

William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...which the world grew pale, To point a moral and adorn a tale. Dr.Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes. The good old rule Sufficeth them ; the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Wordsworth's Rob Roy. This truth came borne by bier...
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Sir Walter Scott: the Story of His Life

Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 pages
...Wordsworth, entitled " Rob Roy's Grave," was this : — " For why ? Because the good old rule SufEceth them ; the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." The story goes, that Wordsworth received the three volumes of " Rob Roy " when half a dozen visitors, who...
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The poetical works of Wordsworth. Repr. of the 1827 ed., with ..., Issue 476

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...on the wind ! With them no strife can last ; they live In peace, and peace of mind. " 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. "A lesson that is quickly learned, j A signal this...
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