 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 feed, and know not me...  Essays and Reviews - Page 345by Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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." Vol.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 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, Match'd 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
...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,... | |
 | 1844 - 714 pages
...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 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 (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 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, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | 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 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
...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,... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 864 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 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 - 1851 - 290 pages
...steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still...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. I... | |
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