 Thro' either babbling world of high and low; Whose life was work, whose language rife With rugged maxims hewn from life; Who never spoke against a foe; Whose eighty winters freeze with one rebuke All great self-seekers trampling on the right : Truth-teller...  Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington - Page 13by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1852 - 16 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...work, whose language rife With rugged maxims hewn from life ; Who never spoke against a foe ; Whose eighty winters freeze with one rebuke All great self-seekers...Whatever record leap to light He never shall be shamed. vnr. Lo, the leader in these glorious wars Now to glorious burial slowly borne, Follow'd by the brave... | |
 | Gibson Craig - 1879 - 320 pages
...whose language rife With rugged maxims hewn from life — Who never spoke against a foe. * • • Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named, Truth-lover...Whatever record leap to light, He never shall be shamed." We cannot say that the Duke's was a perfect or an ideal life — hardly was any man's ever such —... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...maxims hewn from life ; Who never spoke against a foe : Whose eighty winters freeze with one rebnke All great self-seekers trampling on the right ; Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named ; TruIh-lover was our English Dnke ; Whatever record leap to light lie never slutll be shamed. vт.... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 pages
...his name will live in song and story as long as Englishmen honour and reverence truth. He, " Whose eighty winters freeze with one rebuke All great self-seekers trampling on the right ; — Whatever record leap to light, He never shall be shamed." A like impulse, which disdained to... | |
 | Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...dissemble." And of Tennyson's noble praise of Wellington — " Who never sold the truth to'serve the hour ; Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named ; Truth-lover...Whatever record leap to light, He never shall be shamed." And you will hint that, somehow or other, one boy is born with an innate capacity for speaking th*>... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...work, whose language rife AVith rugged maxims hewn from life ; Who never spoke against a foe ; Whose d 4 Follow'd by the brave of other lands, He, on whom from both her open hands Lavish Honor shower'd all... | |
 | 1881 - 456 pages
...work, whose language rife With rugged maxims hewn from life ; Who never spoke against a foe; Whose eighty winters freeze with one rebuke All great self-seekers...was our English Duke ; Whatever record leap to light VIII. Lo, the leader in these glorious wars Now to glorious burial slowly borne, Follow'd by the brave... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 pages
...Whose eighty winters freeze with one rebuke A^g^eat^self-seeke^rs tra^njiling^pn the right : p 161 Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named ; Truth-lover...Whatever record leap to light He never shall be shamed. Lo, the leader in these glorious wars s burial slowly borne, Follow'd by the brave of other lands,... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1881 - 638 pages
...of explaining, on thcrmodynamical principles, what Mr. Tennyson says of the great Duke — ' Whose eighty winters freeze with one rebuke All great self-seekers trampling on the right.' '' Rankine's researches on heat were for the most part connected, as we have already said, with a theory... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...streams of runior flow Thro' either babbling world of high and low ; 350 OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Whose eighty winters freeze with one rebuke All great self-seekers...right : Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named 1 Truth-lover was our English Duke ; Whatever record leap to light He never shall be shamed. Lo, the... | |
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