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" 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 30
1855
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The Works of Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1913 - 1092 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not? I have neither hope nor trust; May on 0 Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled...
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Century Readings for a Course in English Literature, Volume 2

John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - 1915 - 538 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, 3° Cheat and be cheated, and die; who knows? we are ashes and dust. Peace sitting under her olive,...
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The English Bible

James Stacy Stevens - 1921 - 240 pages
...Cain, is it better or worse, Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone? May 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 only not all men lie. It will never...
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Victorian Poetry

Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - 624 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. DC Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hoyeJl'd and hustle...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 5

William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1856 - 586 pages
...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,...cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust, " Peace sitting nnder her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and huddled...
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The Poems of Alfred Tennyson, 1830-1863

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 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...
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Selected Poetry

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age - why not? I have neither hope nor trust; 30 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...
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Allegories of One's Own Mind: Melancholy in Victorian Poetry

David G. Riede - 2005 - 236 pages
...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,...cheated, and die: who knows? we are ashes and dust. (i. 25-32) It is because he does "passively take the print" of the age that Maud registers the pathology...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 46

1855 - 804 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. " Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled...
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Irish Monthly Magazine, Volume 25

1897 - 680 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." And if you protest and say : He rose above all that, even in that poem from which you have quoted ("...
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