 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 - Pàgina 136per Marshall Mather - 1892 - 184 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pàgines
...sympathize with clay. Ae the husband is, the wife is: thon art mated with a clown, And the grossnees of his nature will have weight to drag thee down....Something better than his dog, a little dearer than hie horse. What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him: it is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 314 pàgines
...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 :... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 350 pàgines
...clay. Ae the hnshand is, the wife is: thon art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his natnre will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee,...passion shall have spent its novel force, Something hetter than hia dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pàgines
...the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Ibid. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. Ibid. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. ibid. With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's... | |
 | Caroline Thompson - 1874 - 366 pàgines
...fool perhaps, and you are one, Hastings. I am afraid it would be a case of Amy's husband over again. ' He will hold thee when his passion shall have spent...than his dog — a little dearer than his horse.'." " How confoundedly poetical this air makes one ! " laughed St. Erle, with another tremendous puff of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pàgines
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossuess of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pàgines
...Shalt lower to his level day by day, What is line within tnee growing coarse to sympathize with clay. As the husband is, the wife is ; thou art mated with a clown, And the grossnens of his nature will have weight to drag thee dowa." Allow me, in this connection, to say a... | |
 | 1873 - 548 pàgines
...his body, but never alienated from the remembrance of virtue. THE TRIFLE GATHERER. RY RARRY RURTON. "As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse." L I never read these lines of Tennyson, without being impressed with their insight into human character,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pàgines
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize 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 - 1875 - 356 pàgines
...is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou an mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature...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... | |
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