 Cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows ? we are ashes and dust. IX Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all...  The Dublin university magazine - Page 339by University magazine - 1855Full 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... | |
 | 1855 - 724 pages
...writes, and one can fancy that he is versifying the police reports of the cheap Sunday papers: — Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovoll'd and hustled together, eacli KX, Uko swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1855 - 606 pages
...exceedingly powerful, but very rugged and extraordinary lines, — some of which we transcribe : " Peace, sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovel' d, and hustled together, each sex like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not... | |
 | 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 - 1416 pages
...one can fancy that he is versifying the police reports of the cheap Sunday papers: — Peace sitrini; under her olive, and slurring the days gone by. When the poor are liovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not... | |
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...think, and that of a kind The viler, as underhand, not openly bearing the sword. " Peace sitting nnder her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hqvell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1856 - 430 pages
...men of mind, When who, but a fool, would have faith in a tradesman's ware or his word ? *****<*•• Peace, sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by — When the poor aro hovelled and hustled together, each sex, like swine ; When only the ledger lives, and when only... | |
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