 IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole* Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me...  Poems - Sida 87efter Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 231 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1849 - 792 sidor
...his island-home and kingdom, pants again for enterprise — for wider fields of thought and action. " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among then barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. That... | |
 | 1842 - 538 sidor
...will suggest the view that is taken of the character and mental state of the great wanderer : — " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 sidor
...distant light, Or seem to lift a burthen from thy heart And leave thee freer, till thou wake refresh 'd, Then when the first low matin-chirp hath grown Full...king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | 1845 - 732 sidor
...brought home to the imagination, leaves upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. 1 cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 sidor
...blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 sidor
...brought home to the imagination, leave upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. " ULYSSES. • " It little profits that an idle king,...among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I meet and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I... | |
 | 1849 - 864 sidor
...his island-home and kingdom, pants again for enterprise — for wider fields of thought and action. " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 sidor
...blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 sidor
...blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 434 sidor
...the imagination, leave upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. " ULYSSES. u It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags. Matched with an aged wife, I meet and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
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