 | Samuel Warren - 1835 - 580 páginas
...preserve, amid such trials as these, his equanimity — ' in patience to possess his soul' — To be True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. Let him neither desert, however, nor slumber for a moment at his post. " In this lottery," happily... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 páginas
...receive, we should still have the consolation of being like Butler's steady and generous royalist, — " True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. No well's, where was a very agreeable company; and we... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 páginas
...man retire in disgust, if not actually change. But Loyalty is still the same Whether it lose or win the game, True as the dial to the sun Although it be not shone upon. Derby's loyalty was of that exalted, pure, and simple character, which was ready to suffer all things... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 páginas
...preserve amid such trials as these his equanimity — " in patience to possess his soul" — to be " True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." Let him neither desert, however, nor slumber for a moment at his post. There never yet, said a great... | |
 | 1836 - 932 páginas
...philosopher contemplates two or three hours every day over a sun-dial; and is true to the dial, •• n Our younger students are content to carry their speculations as yet no farther than bowling-greens,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 páginas
...occasion. The first heat of the first race was announced for two o'clock; and although they were not as true " as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon," there was every excuse for the want of punctuality on the part of the committee of management, considering... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1839 - 138 páginas
...did condemnation change their noble character, and all remained, to country and government — " As true as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." For the last six months a handful of the army has been incessantly employed on the Canadian frontiers,... | |
 | Parliament proc, Vict - 1840 - 162 páginas
...feelings of loyalty under all circumstances. It was the sentiment of a Tory poet that — " Monarchy is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ;...the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." (Hear, hear.) We now had a monster of a party, made up of the worst parts of Caval'ers and Roundheads... | |
 | 1840 - 948 páginas
...great Tory poet, who, in his lifetime, was largely requited for his loyalty, said — Our loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ;...the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. We see now a very different race of Tories. We have lived to see a new party rear its head — a monster... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1841 - 194 páginas
...upon your eye, And when you frown upon it—die." Part III. Canto ii. line 173 :— " For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon." These, and a few more passages, seem as if thrown in by Butler to form a happy contrast... | |
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For loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon. 
