 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 400 pages
...so far as he meant anything at all : " I ask'd thee, 'Give me immortality.' Then didst thou grant my asking with a smile, Like wealthy men who care not how they give. * "But," objects Dorothea, " they scarcely ever like being put to bed." " Any more than we do," adds her brother;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...and thy choice, Who madest him thy chosen, that he seem'd To his great heart none other than a God .' I ask'd thee, 'Give me immortality.' Then didst thou...wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...seem'd To his great heart none other than a God! I ask'd thee, " Give me immortality." Then dld'st thou grant mine asking with a smile, Like wealthy...wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, lmmortal age beside immortal youth, And all l was, in... | |
 | Herbert Kynaston - 1879 - 238 pages
...resplendent in beauty and chosen for thee, boasting in his exalted mind as a god.' EXERCISE 28 (6). I asked thee, ' Give me immortality,' Then didst thou grant...not how they give. But thy strong Hours indignant worked their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me, And though they could not end me, left... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 584 pages
...choice, Who madest him thy chosen, that he seemed To his great heart none other than a God! I asked theg, "Give me immortality." Then didst thou grant mine...not how they give, But thy strong Hours indignant worked their wills, And beat me down and marred and wasted me, And though they could not end me, left... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1880 - 434 pages
...care not how they give. But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marrM and wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...and thy choice, Who madest him thy chosen, that he seem'd To his great heart none other than a God ! I ask'd thee, 'Give me immortality.' Then didst thou...indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and mnrr'd and wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maimM To dwell in presence of immortal... | |
 | 1881 - 520 pages
...choice, Who madest him thy chosen, that he seemed To his great heart none other than a god ! I asked thee, "Give me immortality." Then didst thou grant...not how they give. But thy strong Hours indignant worked their wills, And beat me down and marred and wasted me, And though they could not end me, left... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 pages
...and thy choice, Who madest him thy chosen, that he seem'd To his great heart none other than a God 1 I ask'd thee " Give me immortality." Then didst thou...Like wealthy men who care not how they give. But thy strontt Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marred and wasted me, And tho' :hi./... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Who madest him thy chosen, that he bliss, I ask'd thee, " Give me immortality." Then didst thou graut h ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heav Hut thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, АцД beat me down and marr'd and wasted me, And... | |
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Then didst thou grant mine asking with a smile, Like wealthy men who care not how they give. But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me. And tho... 
