 How modest, kindly, all-accomplish'd, wise, With what sublime repression of himself, And in what limits, and how tenderly ; Not swaying to this faction or to that; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantageground For...  A Vindication: Burns, Excise Officer and Poet - Page 12by John Sinton - 1897 - 64 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...himself,. And in what limits, and how tenderly; 20 Not swaying to this faction or to that; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions, nor a vantage ground For pleasure ; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, 25 Before a thousand peering... | |
 | Christian union - 1881 - 402 pages
...deliberations. His powers of mind and heart he retained in undiminished vigour till the end ; and " through all this tract of years wearing the white flower of a blameless life," he died in the joyous hope of a blessed immortality. THE LATE REv. DR. 8. MANNING. It is our painful... | |
 | American poetry - 1881 - 200 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage-ground For pleasure ; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne And blackens... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantageground For pleasure; but thro' r & Coates Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantageground For pleasure ; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens... | |
 | Cecil Moore - English poetry - 1882 - 136 pages
...King; * # * * * Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage-ground For pleasure ; but through all this tract of years, Wearing the white flower of a blameless life." Tennyson. SAINT LOUIS. JIRRORED in sunlit waters idly rest The white-sailed galleys of the arming-... | |
 | Arthur Compton Auchmuty - 1882 - 172 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage-ground For pleasure ; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens... | |
 | Arthur Compton Auchmuty - 1882 - 170 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage-ground For pleasure ; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne,. And blackens... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd am hitions,nor a vantage-ground For pleasure ; hut thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens... | |
 | 1882 - 362 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage ground For pleasure ; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens... | |
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