 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
 | Medicine - 1865 - 598 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." I suppose you, then, under whatever circumstances, hopes, or aspirations, to have established yourselves... | |
 | Robert Cowtan - 1866 - 436 pages
...under Heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid ; Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thoughts, and amiable words, And courtliness,...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man." It was not long before I saw among my new connections one that I thought in every respect would make... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Arthurian romances - 1866 - 204 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 - Arthurian romances - 1866 - 232 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 - 1866 - 734 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 ihee ! Believing, ' Lo mine helpmate, one to feel My purpose and... | |
 | United States Commissioner of Agriculture - 1866 - 660 pages
...society, as expressed by the poet— " 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." As the only example which we shall be able to present of the special rules for the conduct of such... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Biography - 1867 - 370 pages
.... . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 I. THE ELIZABETHAN GENTLEMAN. AD 1354-1586. ' To teach high thought, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man." TENNYSON. ' Sidney, than whom no gentler, braver man His own delightful genius ever feigned, Illustrating... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - Criticism - 1868 - 286 pages
...and the one tendency that directs them all, " 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... | |
 | 1868 - 846 pages
...ADAMS. Nelson & Sons, Paternoster Row. A BRAVK book for boys, and well aimed. " To teach high thought, and amiable words, And courtliness and the desire...fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man." Our Earthly House, and iti Builder. London : Religious Tract Society. Silver Lake, or Lost in the Snow.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 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... | |
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