| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...earnest eye Over her snow-cold breast and angry cheek Kept watch, waiting decision, made reply. " ' Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These...power. Yet not for power, (power of herself Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...earnest eye Over her snow-cold breast and angry cheek Kept watch, waiting decision, made reply. " ' Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These...power. Yet not for power, (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...earnest eye Over her snow-cold breast and angry cheek Kept watch, waiting decision, made reply. " ' Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These...power. Yet not for power, (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right,... | |
| 1855 - 596 pages
...that of following and of acting out his convictions, come what may. "Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control — These three alone lead life to sovereign...the law we live by without fear ; And because right i» right, to follow right Were wisdom, in the SCORN of CONSEQUENCE.'' Here ie a theme upon which we... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...earnest eye Over her snow-cold breast and angry cheek Kept watch, waiting decision, made reply. " ' Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These...power. Yet not for power, (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right,... | |
| Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...life, he thus dilates upon : — " Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lend life to sovereign power, Yet not for power (power...live by without fear ; And because right is right, to fallow right, Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence." Encouraging those who have met with undeserved... | |
| Lawrence Peel - 1860 - 332 pages
...POLITICAL FEELINGS. " I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion." — Job. "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These...power : Yet not for power (power of herself Would come nncalTd for), but to live by Law, » Acting the law we live by without fear : And because right is... | |
| Sir Lawrence Peel - 1860 - 334 pages
...will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion." — Job, " Self -reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead...power : Yet not for power (power of herself Would come nncall'd for), but to live by Law, Acting the law we live by without fear : And because right is right,... | |
| Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pages
...which we could make the text of a whole chapter : u Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, Thepe three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power, (power of herself Would come uncalled-for,) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And because right is right,... | |
| 1860 - 452 pages
...life, he thus dilates upon :— " Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lend life to sovereign power, Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncalled for), bnt to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And because right is right, to follow... | |
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