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 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 176 pages
...infant civilization be ruled with rod or with knout ? I have not made the world, and He that made it 9. Be mine a philosopher's life in the quiet woodland...I cannot be gay let a passionless peace be my lot, Far off from the clamor of liars belied in the hubbub of lies ; From the long-neck'd geese of the world... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 180 pages
...infant civilization be ruled with rod or with knout ? I have not made the world, and He that made it 9. Be mine a philosopher's life in the quiet woodland...I cannot be gay let a passionless peace be my lot, Far off from the clamor of liars belied in the hubbub of lies ; From the long-neck'd geese of the world... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 684 pages
...the selfishness of science and the meanness of thought, ending with this weary hopelessness : '• Bo mine a philosopher's life in the quiet woodland ways,...I cannot be gay let a passionless peace be my lot, Far-off from the clamour of liars. belied in the hubbub of lies ; From the long-neck'd geese of the... | |
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...tho selfishness of science and the meanness of thought, ending with this weary hopelessness : '• Be mine a philosopher's life in the quiet woodland ways, Where if 1 cannot be gay let a pateionless peace bo my lot, Far-off from the clamour of liars belied in the... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1857 - 818 pages
...levity of common life, saying with him — " Be mine a philosopher's life in the quiet woodland wuys, Where if I cannot be gay let a passionless peace be my lot." Yet we need not look into his outward life for the man. Such poets have a higher life, in thought that... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 188 pages
...civilisation be ruled with rod or with knout ? I have not made the world, and He that made it will guide. Be mine a philosopher's life in the quiet woodland...I cannot be gay let a passionless peace be my lot, Far-off from the clamour of liars belied in the hubbub of lies ; From the long-neck'd geese of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1859 - 186 pages
...civilisation be ruled with rod or with knout? I have not made the world, and He that made it will guide. 9Be mine a philosopher's life in the quiet woodland ways,...I cannot be gay let a passionless peace be my lot, Far-off from the clamour of liars belied in the hubbub of lies ; From the long-neck'd geese of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...civilization be ruled with rod or with knout ? I have not made the world, and He that made it will guide. 9. Be mine a philosopher's life in the quiet woodland...I cannot be gay let a passionless peace be my lot, Far off from the clamor of liars belied in the hubbub of lies ; From the long-neck'd geese of the world... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...civilization be ruled with rod or with knout ? I have not made the world, and He that made it will guide. Be mine a philosopher's life in the quiet woodland...I cannot be gay let a passionless peace be my lot, Far off from the clamor of liars belied in the hubbub of lies ; From the long-neck'd geese of the world... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...civilization be ruled with rod or with knout ? I have not made the world, and He that made it will guide. 9. Be mine a philosopher's life in the quiet woodland...I cannot be gay let a passionless peace be my lot, Far off from the clamor of liars belied in the hubbub of lies ; From the lonoj-neck'd geese of the... | |
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