A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He... The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson ... - Page 105by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 713 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...to me Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns...the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...to make mild A nigged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Host blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties,...the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me, — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and... | |
| 1876 - 564 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfil This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good....household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my househould gods, When I am gone. He works his work. I mine. There...the dark broad seas. My marin(ers, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and (thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfil This labor, by slow prndence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good....the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic weleome took The thunder and the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and...the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 236 pages
...useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail [n offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my...sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, ?ouls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1879 - 464 pages
...universally-respected son Telemachus has a finer humour in it than Tennyson ever attains elsewhere. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. Excellent young man ! — but what an unspeakable relief it will be never to hear his judicious remarks... | |
| PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...his universallyrespected son Telemachus has a finer humor in it than Tennyson ever attains elsewhere. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. Excellent young man!—but what an unspeakable relief it will be never to hear his judicious remarks... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1879 - 470 pages
...son Telemachus has a finer humor in it than Tennyson ever attains elsewhere. Most blameless i- be, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. Excellent young man ! — but what an unspeakable relief it will be never to bear his judicious remarks... | |
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