| England - 1849 - 792 pages
...his island-home and kingdom, pants again for enterprise — for wider fields of thought and action. " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among then barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. That... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...plow of 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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. ULYSSES. IT little profits thaf an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
| England - 1842 - 538 pages
...will suggest the view that is taken of the character and mental state of the great wanderer : — " 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,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...plow of 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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
| 1844 - 714 pages
...quoted before, nor have we ever heard anybody name it. Its quietude must steal slowly upon the world. Ulysses. " It little profits that an idle king, By...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
| 1849 - 608 pages
...profits that an idle king, By this small hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wifc, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...brought home to the imagination, leaves upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. 1 cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...plow of 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, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...plow of 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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel ; I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
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