 Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth,...  The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries - Page 183de James Joseph Walsh - 1907 - 490 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1871 - 822 pages
...youth.' With this may be compared the words of Tennyson — ' For indeed I know Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.' The matchless ' Symposium ' has its special interest by the place it occupies in the group of dialogues... | |
 | 1862 - 1006 pages
...they won her — for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden-passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man,...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.' From the year 182 to 521 Caerleon was the seat of an archbishopric. It had five churches, destroyed... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1862 - 412 pages
...And worship her by years of noble deeds. Until they won her' ; and the rest, — * ' high thoughts, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.' " Such, in person and character, was Ellsworth, when he organized, on the 4th day of May, 1859, the... | |
 | 1885 - 676 pages
...Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man. But teach high thoughts and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man." What is true in this limited sense, is true of all affections that bind us together as God's children,... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1862 - 432 pages
...the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to subdne the base in man, 274 Ü75 But teach high thoughts, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. But then I think one should have left school, and should have reached at least the age of twenty, or,... | |
 | 1862 - 538 pages
...soldier ho has left a great example, ' To teach high thought, and amiable wonls, And courtliness »nd the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a nun. ' TEN.NTSOX. Yes : this is he whom Horace Walpole sneered at ! — whose noble ' Arcadia' that... | |
 | 1863 - 382 pages
...there is " No more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, VOL. xxvin. 39 Not only to keep down the base in man But teach high...desire of fame And love of truth and all that makes the man." Undoubtedly the prime essential to the poet is imagination. This is the most Godlike of our... | |
 | 1863 - 380 pages
...master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, VOL. xxvin. 39 Not only to keep down the baae in man But teach high thought and amiable words, And...desire of fame And love of truth and all that makes the man." Undoubtedly the prime essential to the poet is imagination. This is the most Godlike of our... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...down the base in man, but teach high thought, and amiable words into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 40$ and courtliness and the desire of fame, and love of truth, and all that makes a man. A. TENNYSON 1049 AH me, my babe, my blossom, ah my child, -ii- my one sweet child, whom I shall see no... | |
 | 1864 - 876 pages
...gives power to heroes' eyes; and that with no mean crouchings to others, but with "Hifrh thought, find amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes n man," you are rendering your presence a force in the world. That, from the earliest moment, concentration... | |
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