 Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,...  Essays and Reviews - Sida 346efter Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1895 - 588 sidor
...Meet adoration to my household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.' • •*•*•• ' Though much is taken much abides ; and though We are...of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.' In these three great poems Tennyson... | |
 | 1902 - 642 sidor
...without any shadow on our confidence. For thus only shall we become, like the comrades of Ulysses — ' One equal temper of heroic hearts Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.' ART. VIII.— The English Novel : Being... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 sidor
...the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved...of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. LOCKSLEY HALL. COMRADES, leave me here... | |
 | 1842 - 538 sidor
...are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; Our equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Vol. ii. pp. 90, 91. The following little... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 sidor
...the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved...of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. LOCKSLEY HALL. COMRADES, leave me here... | |
 | 1844 - 714 sidor
...the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved...To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." The mild dignity and placid resolve, — the kingly resignation, — the unaffected and unostentatious... | |
 | 1845 - 732 sidor
...knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We aro not now that strength which in old d ivs Move 1 earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are; One...splendid traits of genius. Passages might be clipped frpm his writing; which no poet would disown. The difficulty with him is, that he writes often in a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 sidor
...the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved...of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. LOCKSLEY HALL. « COMRADES, leave me... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 sidor
...the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved...of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. LOCKSLEY HALL. COMRADES, leave me here... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 sidor
...foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may...of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. LOCKSLEY HALL. COMRADES, leave me here... | |
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