ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4311849Full view - About this book
| 1849 - 792 pages
...hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind." As at once a companion and counterpart to this picture,...profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among then barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. That... | |
| 1842 - 538 pages
...will suggest the view that is taken of the character and mental state of the great wanderer : — " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
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| 1849 - 608 pages
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| 1844 - 714 pages
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| 1845 - 732 pages
...brought home to the imagination, leaves upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. That hoard, and sleep,... | |
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| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...imagination, leave upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. " ULYSSES. • " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I meet and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pages
...hollow Ixitos-land to live and lie reclined. On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind." As ction of the munificent and discerning Cosmo, arrayed small hearth, among these barren crags, ¡Vlatch'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws... | |
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