| George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...love dwelling in his heart and brightly unfolded in his daily life. " It seems to me howe'er it be, 'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." Aristocracy of character is the greatest heraldry of man, and the Gospel... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...heavens above us bent The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Ilowe'cr it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good....and towers : The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vague disease,... | |
| English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...at home in the drawing-room than the tavern, and the high-born coquette is admirably hit off: — ' I know you, Clara Vere de Vere, You pine among your...and towers ; The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vaguo disease,... | |
| 1884 - 626 pages
...no need to mourn the loss of empty names. The substance will remain if the shadows flee away, for " 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." mrog dttjglisjrfewnratt's .first fisit 10 LETTER I. Mete, August lit. MY... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to...and towers ; The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vague disease,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis...and towers ; The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vague disease,... | |
| 1843 - 414 pages
...Vere de Vere, From yon blue heaven, above us bent. The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent ; Howe'er it be, it seems to me Tis...halls and towers ; The languid light of your proud eye Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, . Yet sickening of a... | |
| American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bert The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis...good : Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood V say we ; and if Tennyson had prothat is beauty. "Madeline," who ranges claimed... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis...and towers : The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vague disease,... | |
| 1875 - 828 pages
...old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent ; Howe'er it be, it seems to me, "Pis only noble to be good, Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." Besides, most noble Vere de Vere, your life and ours have come from the same... | |
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