 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 thoughts and amiable words And courtliness and the desire of fame And love of truth and all that makes a man.  The Newberry House Magazine - Seite 3011894Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1871 - 608 Seiten
...cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her ; for indeed I knew .. _ Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the...in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words A i HI courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.' The figure... | |
 | 1861 - 1148 Seiten
...room. The grand aim of the book is well summed up in the lines from Tennyson, on the title-page : " Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words, And -ourtliness, and the desire of fame, AndMove of truth, and all that makes the man." PROP. JOHNSON'S... | |
 | 1897 - 986 Seiten
...Idealized— humanized in a word— Is .a chief instrument of our ethical life: its office:— . . . not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thoughts and amiable words. And love of truth, and all that makes a man. Once more. Those great ethical... | |
 | 1876 - 818 Seiten
...only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, N' it only to keep Jown the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness,... | |
 | 1894 - 664 Seiten
...from a literary point of view : — For indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than ia the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in nun, But teach high thought, and amiable word«, And courtlineu, and the desire of fame, And love of... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 Seiten
...noble. When they returned to N , Guy carried a safeguard against his former transgressions with him. "For, indeed, I know Of no more subtle master, under heaven, Than it the maiden passion for a maid ; Not only to keep down the base in moil. But loach high thoughts... | |
 | Thomas Laycock - 1860 - 504 Seiten
...the influence of a virtuous attachment. Such is the experience of many observers of human nature. " For indeed I know 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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 Seiten
...of noble deeds. Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of uo more subtle master under heaven, Thau is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down tho base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame,... | |
 | 1885 - 676 Seiten
...is the greatest safeguard to the virtue of our sex, and true love one of its brightest influences. "I know of no more subtle master under Heaven Than...only to keep down the base in man. But teach high thoughts and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1862 - 432 Seiten
...must acknowledge it ! — under-sized. I must not be understood, if you please, to scoff at love ; indeed, I know Of no more subtle master under Heaven...Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to subdne the base in man, 274 Ü75 But teach high thoughts, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the... | |
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