As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than... "Manners Makyth Man." - Trang 78bởi Edward John Hardy - 1890 - 285 trangXem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 trang
...all the chords with might: Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog,... | |
| 1867 - 738 trang
...the week's wages at the " Blue Elephant." So true it is that " Ai the husband is, the wife is : thon art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." And she had no one but herself to thank for it, that was the embittering thought. wife, ill-treats... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 trang
...thee happy ?—having known me—to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog,... | |
| 1842 - 610 trang
...known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be : thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with a clown. And the grossness... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 trang
...known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be : thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness... | |
| 1843 - 424 trang
...known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be : thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness... | |
| 1843 - 418 trang
...decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be : thou shall lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness... | |
| 1848 - 614 trang
...upon the following propositions : H " As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with ac)own, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." How true! This is poetry; for it suggests a long train of thoughts — of the fall of a superior nature... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 trang
...known me— to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be : thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 trang
...decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shell be : thou shall lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness... | |
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