 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 1991868Full view - About this book
 | Helen Mathers - 1881 - 780 pages
...one maiden only, cleave to her And worship her by years of noble deeds until they win her. For indeed I know of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid." The strength and position of England as a nation is owing, in a great measure, to this concentration... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Mätzner - 1882 - 564 pages
...Grandf. 1.). Noble thought (shall) be freer under the sun (TENNYS., Idylls &c. p. 276.). Indeed I knew of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid (ib. p. 183.). Altengl. Is no science under sonne So sovereyn for the soule (P. PLODOHM. 6025.). He... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds Until they won her; for indeed I know Of no more subtle master under heaven Than...a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But to teach high thoughts and amiable words, And courtliness and the desire of fame, And love of truth,... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - 1883 - 308 pages
...chivalrous spirit wherewith alone a man may reach to the highest love : — that subtle master under heaven, 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, and all that makes a man. The Muslim has no... | |
 | John McClintock, James Strong - 1883 - 980 pages
...noble deeds, Until they won lier: for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is I he maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in innu, But teach high thoughts, and nmiable words, And courtliness, and the deeire of fame, And love... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1883 - 740 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. m. lid, ( Not only to keep down the base in / man, / But teach high thought and atniabb i words... | |
 | 1883 - 588 pages
...loved her was a liberal education.' Tennyson, too, has thus expanded the same sentiment : ' For indeed I know Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden-passion for a maid, Not merely to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 154 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, 475 Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness,... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...sung of. Tennyson says of it — " In sooth, I know Of no more subtle master under heaven, Than is a maiden passion for a maid. Not only to keep down 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." It is the foundation... | |
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