I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. The Fortnightly - Seite 8051871Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Marlborough coll - 1855 - 126 Seiten
...Tennyson's — sentiments most unmistakeably appear in those unworthy lines, " For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all...day like the Sultan of old in a garden of spice." lines worthier a place in the Horatian philosophy — nil admirari — than in Tennyson. What the object... | |
| 1877 - 564 Seiten
...her babe for a burial fee, And Timour Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones." Maud, 1 pt. i. 12. "Walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice." Mawlj 1 pt. iv. 7. Who is the sultan here alluded to ( " That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull, Smelling... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 Seiten
...folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 Seiten
...folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God... | |
| Caroline Chesebro' - 1856 - 364 Seiten
...has come, it would seem, irretrievably, to the gloomy conclusion that " Not to desire or admire .... were more than to walk all day, like the sultan of old, in a garden of spice." But now how strangely has this habit of mind been disturbed ! Once in a while, years and years ago,... | |
| 1856 - 430 Seiten
...volumes devoted to the life and correspondence of the " gentle Elia," a recreation more delightful " than to walk all day, like the sultan of old, in a garden of spice." Reviewing has been so entirely exhausted upon his writings, and his reputation is so well and fixedly... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 188 Seiten
...folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 Seiten
...folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 Seiten
...folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. VOL. n. 8 8. For the drift of the Maker is dart, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the... | |
| 1862 - 838 Seiten
...folly and vice. I would not marvel at cither, but keep a temperate brain; For not to desiro and admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all...day, like the sultan of old, in a garden of spice. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God... | |
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