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" 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 339
by University magazine - 1855
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Californian Illustrated Magazine, Volume 1

1892 - 836 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. The feelings that have here found a voice can not be dismissed with the assertion that they are unjust...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 175

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 598 pages
...sublime ideal of a nation of shopkeepers could only be properly cherished in a state of peace : — ' Peace sitting under her olive and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovelled and hustled together, each sex, like swine; When only the ledger lives, and only not all men...
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Primer of English Verse: Chiefly in Its Æsthetic & Organic Character

Hiram Corson - 1892 - 246 pages
...^/ssing in war on ^is own ^earthstone? Afay make my heart as a willstone, set my /ace as ay?int, C#eat and be cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust. When the poor are ^ovelled and bustled together, each sex, like When only the /edger fives, and when...
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Maud; In memoriam; The princess; Enoch Arden

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 294 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. DC. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled...
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The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 5, Issue 1

Charles Wells Moulton - 1893 - 132 pages
...the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font; The fire-fly wakens." —Ibid. PEACE. 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 all...
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The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 5

1893 - 472 pages
...the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font; The fire-fly wakens." —Ibid. PEACE. 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 all...
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The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 922 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,...and be cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes arid dust. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd...
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From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from ...

Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 328 pages
...But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. PEACE OR WAR ? [From Maud.] Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovelled and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not...
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English Poetry..: With Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Volume 3

1896 - 532 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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The Irish Monthly, Volume 25

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