 | Lisbeth Gooch Séguin, Lisbeth Gooch Strahan (formerly Séguin.) - 1878 - 416 Seiten
...disgusted with the bad taste which led Miss Capriccia to waste a thought upon so ordinary a creature. " Having known me, to decline On a range of lower feelings, And a harsher voice than mine," thought the canary. It was too cruel ! Muff had also his own particular reasons... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 236 Seiten
...falser than all songs have sung, Puppet to a father's threat, and servile to a shrewish tongue ! h it well to wish thee happy? — having known me —...a narrower heart than mine! Yet it shall be : thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay.... | |
 | 1879 - 524 Seiten
...servile to a shrewish tongue Г ls it well to wish thee happy ? — having known me — to deeline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine l Yet it shall be : thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse... | |
 | 1879 - 732 Seiten
...Thou art mated with a clown, And the grosanesa of his nature shall have weight to drag thee down, Yes, it shall be . thou shall lower to his level day by day." I had heard rumours of all this : but the busy active, life I led caused mo to pay no great attention,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 Seiten
...! 0 the barren, barren shore ! Falser than all fancy fathoms, falser than all songs have sung, — then ! Cuspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens...beyond thought, and ¡rower divine. Speak, ye who best shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 Seiten
...moorland ! O the barren, barren shore ! Falser than all fancy fathoms, falser than all songs have sung, Puppet to a father's threat, and servile to a shrewish...range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! ss 522 As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature... | |
 | 1880 - 406 Seiten
...given. In vain the feverish spirit strives With unrelenting heaven." Again, from Locksley Hall': " Is it well to wish thee happy ?— having known ME...range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine !" ******* " Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth." Then follow three... | |
 | 1907 - 252 Seiten
...! O the barren, barren shore ! Falser than all fancy fathoms, falser than all songs have sung, — Puppet to a father's threat, and servile to a shrewish...shall be: thou shall lower to his level day by day, As the husband is, the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 Seiten
...moorland! O the barren, barren shore ! 40 Falser than all fancy fathoms, falser than all songs have sung, Puppet to a father's threat, and servile to a shrewish...a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be: thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 608 Seiten
...fathoms, falser than all songs have sung, Puppet to a father's threat, and servile to a shrewish tongue 1 Is it well to wish thee happy ? — having known me...range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine 1 Yet it shall be : thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse... | |
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As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. 
