 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.  Translations - Page 74by George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - 1863 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - 1902 - 432 pages
...270 Look'd one black dot against the verge of dawn, And on the mere the wailing died away. 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 and... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1902 - 598 pages
...pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. 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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1902 - 296 pages
...ideas and conceptions of all former ages. From "History of America," by W. ROBERTSON, 0.D. 55. 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,... | |
 | Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 408 pages
...hollower-bellowing ocean, and again The scarlet shafts of sunrise — but no sail. TENNYSON : Enoch Arden. (2) It little profits that an idle king, By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. TENNYSON : Ulysses. (3) The raven itself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1903 - 644 pages
...I know That, wheresoe'er I am by night and day, All earth and air seem only burning fire.' ULYSSES IT little profits that an idle king, By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. 5 I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 pages
...uneventful life Ulysses felt the spirit of adventure and the longing for action stirring anew within him. 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,... | |
 | 1903 - 360 pages
...uneventful life Ulysses felt the spirit of adventure and the longing for action stirring anew within him. 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,... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William John Hawkins - 1903 - 168 pages
...speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. 35. 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 feed, and... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1904 - 722 pages
...said, " She has a lovely face ; God in his mercy lend her grace, 170 The Lady of Shalott." ULYSSES IT little profits that an idle king, By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. 5 I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
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