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" 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,... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 199
1868
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 131

1871 - 608 pages
...cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her ; for indeed I knew .. _ Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the...in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words A i HI courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.' The figure...
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

1861 - 1148 pages
...room. The grand aim of the book is well summed up in the lines from Tennyson, on the title-page : " Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words, And -ourtliness, and the desire of fame, AndMove of truth, and all that makes the man." PROP. JOHNSON'S...
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The Living Age, Volume 213

1897 - 986 pages
...Idealized— humanized in a word— Is .a chief instrument of our ethical life: its office:— . . . not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thoughts and amiable words. And love of truth, and all that makes a man. Once more. Those great ethical...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 79

1876 - 818 pages
...only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, N' it only to keep Jown the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness,...
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Notes and Queries

1894 - 664 pages
...from a literary point of view :— For indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than ii the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down...man, But teach high thought, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the delire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. Thus the Victorian...
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Notes and Queries

1894 - 664 pages
...from a literary point of view : — For indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than ia the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in nun, But teach high thought, and amiable word«, And courtlineu, and the desire of fame, And love of...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp].

Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 pages
...former transgressions with him. "For, indeed, I know Of no more subtle master, under heaven, Than it the maiden passion for a maid ; Not only to keep down the base in moil. But loach high thoughts and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love...
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A collection of printed papers relating to Durham school made by H. Holden ...

Durham city, sch - 1852 - 486 pages
...only, cleave to her, And worship by her years of noble deeds, Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the...man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. 21 IDEM GREECE REDDITCM....
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 48

1859 - 620 pages
...only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the...man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. And all this throve...
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Idylls of the King

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 304 pages
...only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the...man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. And all this throve...
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