 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.  Poetical Works - Page 182by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861Full view - About this book
 | England - 1849 - 792 pages
...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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I caunot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered... | |
 | 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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me." Vol. ii. p. 88. We know not how others may feel upon this matter, but to us there is something not... | |
 | 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 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
...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,... | |
 | 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 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
...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,... | |
 | 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
...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,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...brought home to the imagination, leave upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. " ULYSSES. • " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I meet 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,... | |
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