 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. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than...  Popular Studies of Nineteenth Century Poets - Pągina 136per Marshall Mather - 1892 - 184 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 680 pągines
...? having loved me to decline — Me I for him, a drivelling idiot, but with longer purse than mine. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something as the mutton shoulder unrelieved by onion sauce. What is this ? his eyes are blackened 1 think not... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pągines
...all the chords with might: Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. Comfort ? comfort scorned of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow... | |
 | 1867 - 738 pągines
...the week's wages at the " Blue Elephant." So true it is that " Ai the husband is, the wife is : thon art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." And she had no one but herself to thank for it, that was the embittering thought. wife, ill-treats... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 664 pągines
...having loved me to decline — Jiff ! for him, a drivelling idiot, bnt with longer purse than mine. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something as the mutton shoulder unrelieved by onion sauce. What is this? his eyes are blackened ! think not... | |
 | 1842 - 610 pągines
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine, Go to him : it is thy duty :... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pągines
...thee happy ?—having known me—to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this 1 his eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him: it is thy duty:... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pągines
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him : it is thy duty... | |
 | 1843 - 418 pągines
...shall lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him : it is thy duty... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pągines
...upon the following propositions : H " As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with ac)own, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." How true! This is poetry; for it suggests a long train of thoughts — of the fall of a superior nature... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pągines
...shall lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not thej are glazed with wine. Go to him — it is thy duty... | |
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