 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1860 - 464 pages
...blue heavens above us bent The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be...good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." — TENNYSON. THE Turret-Room, as it was called, was a pretty old-fashioned... | |
 | Mary Bennett - Children - 1860 - 172 pages
...Lena was resolved to go, carrying with her only the best ambition, coveting only " the best gifts." " Howe'er it be, it seems to me ' Tis only noble to be good ; Kind words are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." warning ; ' Never Mind ' was our... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...living motive instead of an abstract truth. He tells us, — " Howe'er it be, it seems to me, "lis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets. And simple faith than Norman blood." Longfellow has nothing to surpass the plainness, earnestness, terseness,... | |
 | Law - 1861 - 420 pages
...blue heavens above us bent The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to...good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson. IT was but a few days after the conversation recorded in the last... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...blue heavens above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be...good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. I know you, Clara Vere de Vere : You pine among your halls and towers, The... | |
 | William Landels - Conduct of life - 1861 - 280 pages
...blue heavens above us bent. The grand old gardener and hia wife Smile at the claims of long descent Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to...good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." The history of the Church is replete with instances of heroism, which shew... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...blue heavens above us bent The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to...good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. 1 know you, Clara Vere de Vere : You pine among your halls and towers, The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...blue heavens above us bent The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to...good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. 1 know you, Clara Vere de Vere : You pine among your halls and towers, The... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...the souls of women. — Carlyle. The boast of those who cannot boast of anything else. — Howe' er it be — it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson. — Nobility of blood Is but a glitt'ring and fallacious good. The... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...crucified. His daily prayer, far better understood In acts than words, was simply doing good. WHITTLEE. Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. TENNYSON. More sweet than odors caught by hi™ who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand... | |
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Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. 
