 | 1877 - 564 Seiten
...her babe for a burial fee, And Timour Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones." Maud, 1 pt. i. 12. "Walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice." Mawlj 1 pt. iv. 7. Who is the sultan here alluded to ( " That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull, Smelling... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 Seiten
...the poet is whirl'd into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 Seiten
...the poet is whirl'd into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God... | |
 | Caroline Chesebro' - 1856 - 364 Seiten
...has come, it would seem, irretrievably, to the gloomy conclusion that " Not to desire or admire .... were more than to walk all day, like the sultan of old, in a garden of spice." But now how strangely has this habit of mind been disturbed ! Once in a while, years and years ago,... | |
 | 1856 - 430 Seiten
...flirtation with the muse of Moore." The peccadillo is as distinctly forbidden as the sin. These are fine lines: " For not to desire or admire, If a man could learn it, were more Than tn walk all day, like the Sultan of old la a garden of spice.'1 And pleasant wisdom. Bat this walking... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 188 Seiten
...the poet is whirl' d into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 Seiten
...the poet is whirl'd into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 Seiten
...the poet is whirl'd into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. VOL. n. 8 8. For the drift of the Maker is dart, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 Seiten
...of the poet is whirl'd into folly and viceI would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn...more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 Seiten
...the poet is whirl'd into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God... | |
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For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 
