 As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than...  Notes and Queries - Seite 4471922Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 Seiten
...the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Ibid. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. Ibid. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. ibid. With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's... | |
 | Caroline Thompson - 1874 - 366 Seiten
...fool perhaps, and you are one, Hastings. I am afraid it would be a case of Amy's husband over again. ' He will hold thee when his passion shall have spent...than his dog — a little dearer than his horse.'." " How confoundedly poetical this air makes one ! " laughed St. Erle, with another tremendous puff of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 Seiten
...is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him : it is thy duty:... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 Seiten
...: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him : it is thy duty... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 Seiten
...: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him : it is thy duty... | |
 | 1873 - 548 Seiten
...is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down; He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse." L I never read these lines of Tennyson, without being impressed with their insight into human character,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 Seiten
...the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. ibid. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. ibid. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. ibid. With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 Seiten
...mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thec down. He will held thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him : it is thy duty :... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 Seiten
...with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag Ihee down. He will hold thce, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him: it is thy duty: kiss... | |
 | H. Horatio Woodbridge - 1876 - 372 Seiten
...thou art mated with a clown, And the Crossness of his nature will have weight to draj^ thee down ; He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse." —Alfred Tennyson. " A few days before my father reached the seventy-first year of his age, in taking... | |
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