 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, and feed, and know not me.  Poetical Works - Sida 182efter Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1849 - 792 sidor
...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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I caunot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered... | |
 | 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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me." Vol. ii. p. 88. We know not how others may feel upon this matter, but to us there is something not... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 sidor
...plow of pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. 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,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 sidor
...plow of pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. 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,... | |
 | 1844 - 714 sidor
...quoted before, nor have we ever heard anybody name it. Its quietude must steal slowly upon the world. 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,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 sidor
...plow of pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. 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,... | |
 | 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 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 - 1846 - 254 sidor
...plow of pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. 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, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I meet and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | 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,... | |
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