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, and feed, and know not me... Poems - Page 87by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...(blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo (flap And buffet round thehillsfrombluif to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren (craps, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole 1'nequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...downward go, as pleased Another, Until the sea above us closed again. Dante Aligliieri. Tr. HW Longfellow. ULYSSES. 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,... | |
| Newton Abbot College - 1877 - 568 pages
...satire he my song." 2. " The Egyptians worshipped dogs, and for Their faith made internecine war." 3. " 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." 4. " On old JBgina's rock,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 392 pages
...still hearth, among these harren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Uneqnal laws nnto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. [ caunot rest from travel : I will drink wrote : Greatly, heve enffer'd greatly, hoth with those That... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 488 pages
...ULYSSES. 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...race That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not inc. 1 cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...world " — '• To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."l 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 and... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...blast The steep slate-epnarry, and the great echo llap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Mateh'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
| 1882 - 376 pages
...of alliance." 13. Give a few simple rules for grammatical analysis, and apply them to the following: "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,... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...earth in earth forget these empty courts, And thee returning on thy silver wheels. 030 631 Bigou*. 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,... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1882 - 432 pages
...brought home to the 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 those barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I meet and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That... | |
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