 How modest, kindly, all-accomplish'd, wise, With what sublime repression of himself, And in what limits, and how tenderly ; Not swaying to this faction or to that ; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage-ground...  The works of Alfred Tennyson - Page 2by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873Full view - About this book
 | 1877 - 1004 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambition, nor a vantage-ground For pleasure, but through all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.' ORIGINAL POETRY. THE BURNING BUSH: BY THE BET. AH VINE. THE flocks are feeding round the hill : The... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1862 - 432 pages
...time, how a free people honoured, loved, and lamented the 'noble father of her kings to be ; ' who wore The white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand...fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens ever; blot. THE WITNESS. IN THREE PARTS. — PART II. ALTHOUGH I was at the appointed spot before seven... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1863 - 52 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions, nor a vantage-ground For pleasure; but through all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of...blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses. ******** Who dares foreshadow for an only son A lovelier life, a more unstained than his ? " 9 Mr.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage ground For pleasure; hut thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower...In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blaobans every blot : for where is he Who dares foreshadow for an only son A lovelier life, a more... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 652 pages
...faction or to that; Hot making hia high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage ground For pleasure; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing...peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upou a throne, And blackens every blot ; for where is he Who dares foreshadow for an only son A lovelier... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - 1865 - 322 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions, nor a vantage ground Of pleasure. But through all this tract of years, Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.' " Murdered, coffined, buried, and will live with those few immortal names who were not born to die... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1865 - 252 pages
...object of the keenest investigation : ' through all this tract of years ' men have looked at him ' In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot ; ' but still they have seen in him, and that too in a far higher sense than the poet has employed... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1866 - 452 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions, nor a vantage ground For pleasure ; but through all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, f Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne." TUB END.... | |
 | Catherine Marsh - 1867 - 616 pages
...aa he moved, How modest, kindly, all-accomplished, wise, With what sublime repression of himself ; Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before...which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.' The mournful tidings were known in Beckenham early on Sunday, but the knowledge of it was kept from... | |
 | S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 pages
...the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, not a vantage-ground For pleasure ; but through all this past of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life Before a thousand peering bitternesses In that fierce light which beats upon a throne And blackens every blot ; for where is... | |
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