 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, and all that makes a man.  The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson - Page 185by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Charles Woodhouse - 1881 - 392 pages
...? Woman's deep, enduring love ; man's absorbing, passionate love for woman — " For indeed I know Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the...a• maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, Bat teach high thoughts and amiable words, And love of truth, and all that makes a man " — the pure,... | |
 | Lounger in society the pseud - 1881 - 374 pages
...redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one...to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds.' As for the true lady, she will be, of necessity, the counterpart of the true gentleman : pure, refined,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it,...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,... | |
 | John Colwell - 1882 - 104 pages
...it or no, is hardly thought of. And yet such things are of grave importance. For, indeed, we know " Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the...for a maid. Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thoughts, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth,... | |
 | Peter Henry Emerson - 1882 - 422 pages
...he loved her with all his heart, said " Good-bye " in the most unmoved, formal way. CHAPTER XXXVIII. "To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds Until they win her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid,... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Mätzner - 1882 - 564 pages
...Tales of a 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... | |
 | Helen Mathers - 1881 - 780 pages
...love." One is irresistibly reminded in the refrain of the charge given by Arthur to his knights — " To love 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."... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 536 pages
...swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, . . . To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To lead...only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds."1 There is a sort of refined pleasure in having to do with such a world ; for there is none... | |
 | John McClintock, James Strong - 1883 - 980 pages
...break the heathen, and uphold the Christ ; To ride abroad redressing human wrongs; To speak no plander, no, nor listen to it ; To lead sweet lives in purest...worship her by years of 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...were our lives ; And woed they nobler, won they nobler wives. Sidney Lanier. To lead sweet lives of purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to...years of noble deeds Until they won her; for indeed I know Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep... | |
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