 I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 831861Full view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 618 pages
...Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. And all this throve until I wedded thee ! Believing1, "lo ! my helpmate, one to feel My purpose and... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 620 pages
...Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. And all this throve until I wedded thee ! Believing, "lo ! my helpmate, one to feel My purpose and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1859 - 802 pages
...and the one tendency that directs ihem all, 1 To keep down the base in man, To teach high thought, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man ;' and surely we must agree that, unless language be hypocrisy and literature a sham, this is not only... | |
 | Thomas Laycock - 1860 - 504 pages
...Than is the maiden-passion for a maid ; Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man."* 520. The influence of love and maternity upon the corporeal form and mental character of woman is quite... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...he attempts " To keep down the base in man, To teach high thought and amiable words, And comeliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man." He also raises the standard to an eminence not attained before, and fights the battles of womankind,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. And all this throve until I wedded thee ! Believing " lo mine helpmate, one to feel My purpose and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. And all this throve until I wedded thee ! Believing " lo mine helpmate, one to feel My purpooc and... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pages
...Thau is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down tho base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.'' Though connected by a slight thread, these four poems are complete in themselves. They are elaborate... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 412 pages
...redressing human wrongs, — To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, — To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, — To love one maiden only, cleave...Disregarding all extant works upon tactics, he drew up a simpler system for the use of his men. Throwing aside the old ideas of soldierly bearing, he taught... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1862 - 432 pages
...Heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to subdne the base in man, 274 Ü75 But teach high thoughts, and amiable words, And courtliness,...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. But then I think one should have left school, and should have reached at least the age of twenty, or,... | |
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