...afterwards ! ' Power !' he was heard once to mutter in his triumphal year~~l)f 1070, ' ib has UOffie" to me too late. There were days when, on waking, I...could move dynasties and governments; but that has gassgd-Awajk.' That youth was the period for action ; that to be granted adequate scope for your genius...

...him six years afterwards ! ' Power ! ' he was heard once to mutter in his triumphal year of 1878 ; ' it has come to me too late. There were days when,...dynasties and governments ; but that has passed away.' That youth was the period for action ; that to be granted adequate scope for your genius when young...

...he sang in Coningsby to Youth and its manifold achievements still echoed in his ears, as it echoes in ours ; and the privilege of action, supported and...was in him. Disraeli, being a man of imagination, delighted in the unexpected, and he was not unwilling to find in his own career an element of surprise....

...lost. Lonely and ailing now, some one heard him murmur a moit" the fanfares of his triumph, ' Power ! it has come to me too late. There were, days when,...dynasties and governments ; but that has passed away.'' Besides, the charm was failing. For the unwearied Gladstone ingeminated woe before roaring audiences...

...it is twenty years too late. Give me your age and your health!" And he was heard to murmur, "Power! It has come to me too late. There were days when,...dynasties and governments; but that has passed away." He had always been so great an admirer of youth, and his own had been frittered away because his startingpoint...

...reflects the range of reasons why the Liberals did so badly in the election of 1874. Quotation Power! It has come to me too late. There were days when,...dynasties and governments; but that has passed away. Disraeli in 1878 Biography Richard Cross (1823-1914) Cross was born in Lancashire and educated at Rugby...

...won a general election.'8 Dizzy himself, four years after his victory, was heard to murmur, 'Power! It has come to me too late . . . There were days when,...move dynasties and governments; but that has passed away.'9 He was sixty-nine years old when he formed his second Cabinet, and he was destined to die a...