| Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 412 pages
...Gilt-head. f " Nobilitas fola eft atque unica, virtus." Juvenal. " Howe'er it be, it feems to me, "Pis only noble to be good; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And fimple faith than Norman blood." Tennyfon. wheel another way, thus it was in the firft and primitive... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent, The gardner 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,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 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,... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than...and towers ; The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearied of the rolling hours. 82 TRIAL BEFORE REWARD. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pages
...the English poet Tennyson, has become the practical rule of life in this our Western World: "However it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." For though some few in our "fashionable world," may ape the arrogant absurdities... | |
| William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...heavens above us bent. The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Ilowe'er 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,... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1866 - 308 pages
...head with cold water, until he shouted at them in unmistakably strong language to desist. JOHN HUSS. " 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." Tennyson. JOHN Huss was the great upholder of true religion who flourished... | |
| Literature - 1851 - 824 pages
...blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his irife Smile ai the claims of long detcent; Howe'er it be, it seems to me, ' Tis only noble to be good, Kind hearts are more than foronetf And gentle faith tíian Norman blood. 'oor. By HENRT MAYHEW. Nos. I to 7. New York: Harper... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...Veré de Veré, From yon blue heavens above us ben; The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me Tis only noble to be good : Kind hearw are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood 1" So say we ; and if Tennyson had... | |
| John Noake - Worcestershire (England) - 1848 - 396 pages
...old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, T is only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." The Poher family (who had lands in Claines 13 Edward I.) were the first patrons... | |
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