 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 sidor
...old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faitli than Norman blood. I know you, Clara Vere de Vere : You pine among your halls and towers : The... | |
 | John Duns - 1899 - 330 sidor
...successful in diverting men's attention from what ought to be the highest aims of life : " Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good." The direction in which this disturbing influence tends is to separate man from man. It is a fact, which... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 154 sidor
...as soon as silence was restored she began the following tale.] IV. Stars of Sir Htob*stus " Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." TENNYSON. ||NCE upon a time — and I purposely employ iat vague expression... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Walker - 1867 - 294 sidor
...the welfare of mankind, and of which the prime motives are love to God and benevolence to man? — " 'Tis only noble to be good : Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than gentle blood." Now the history of the Christian Church is replete with instances of this... | |
 | Margaret T. Downing - 1867 - 394 sidor
...Is an eloquent exposition of his sentiments. Again in the same poem : " Howe'er it be it seems to mo 'Tis only noble to be good, Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." He inveighs against pride of birth also, in "The Lord of Burleigh," where... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1867 - 228 sidor
...be only men, true, simple, and brave, with the words of the poet written on the heart of each — ' 'Tis only noble to be good, Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.' Doubtless that time will come, and is coming ; and as a first-fruits of it... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1868 - 266 sidor
...simple I 70 ALFRED TENNYSON. maiden in her flower is worth a hundred coats of arms," and, " Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good : Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." The sort of democratic aristocracy here is particularly fine : it is expressed... | |
 | 1868 - 532 sidor
...vain that we ventured to quote Tennyson's " Lady Clara Veré de Veré " to our brother — " Howe'cr it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good, Kind hearts are more than corónete, And simple faith than Norman blood." Bro. Sarchet will never believe that anything superior... | |
 | 1868 - 370 sidor
...thunders of her beloved Exeter Hall in selfish orthodoxy. STOOP TO CONQUER. 63 I know you Clara Vere Ac Vere You pine among your halls and towers The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearicd of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vague disease.... | |
 | Isabella Fyvie Mayo - 1868 - 292 sidor
...Mr. Marten ; " but certainly ' descent ' is oftenest on the lips of those who themselves forget — ' Tis only noble to be good, Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.' " "Pooh! who thinks anything of coronets?" interrupted Mr. Herbert. " How... | |
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Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. 
