Sooner or later I too may passively take the print Of the golden age - why not? I have neither hope nor trust; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, Cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? we are ashes and dust. Littell's Living Age - Page 301855Full view - About this book
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age— why not? I have neither hope nor trust ; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint. Cheat an.l be cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust." And here is a portrait still closer... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 436 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not? I have neither hope nor trust ; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint,...cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust. 9. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, "When the poor are hovell'd and hustled... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 776 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not ? I have neither hope nor trust; Slay make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint,...cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust. " Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not ? I have neither hope nor trust ; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint,...cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust. 9. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled... | |
 | 1855 - 808 pages
...nor trust : May make my heart as a mlllstone, set my Awe as a flint. Cheat and be cheated, and dlo: who knows? we are ashes and dust" Is that poetry ?...it even respectable verse? Is it not altogether an ill - conceived and worse - expressed screed of bombast, set to a metro which has the string-halt,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1855 - 802 pages
...age—why not ? I have neither hope nor trust; Sooner or later I too may passively take the print May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, Cheat and bo cheated, and die: who knows ? we are ashes and dust. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring... | |
 | 1855 - 812 pages
...asre — why not? I have neither hope nor trust : May make my heart as a millstone, set шу lac« as a flint. Cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? we aro a&hes and dust." Is that poetry? la it even respectable verso ? fs it not altogether on ill - conceived... | |
 | 1858 - 650 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not? I have neither hope nor trust; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, Cheat to be cheated and die : Who knows? We are ashes and dust." "We own to a small share of sympathy with... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 188 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not ? I have neither hope nor trust ; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, Cheat and be cheated, and die : who knows 1 we are ashes and dust. 9. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 1116 pages
...too may possibly take the print x Of the golden age — why not? I have neither hope nor trust, May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint,...cheated and die; who knows? we are ashes and dust." Cheat and be cheated and die ! Poor Turner, was not such his fate? Had he known — " How sublime a... | |
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