 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
 | Francis Marion Green - Presidents - 1882 - 460 pages
...With what sublime repression of himself, And in what limits and how tenderly ! * * * * through nil this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life." Hiram knew him then, as the world knows him now. His old scholars "heard his days before him" and were... | |
 | john swann withington and r. abercrombie - 1883 - 814 pages
...was too complete for that. Of her, sa of the late Prince Consort, it may be said she passed " Thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life." May her willingness in Christian work, unselfishness of disposition, devontness of spirit, find many... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...faction or to that, 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. From IDYLLS OF THE KINO. LANCELOT AND ELAINE.* His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful... | |
 | Sarah A. Tooley - Biography - 1884 - 300 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 (1st baron.) - 1884 - 168 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 - English poetry - 1885 - 526 pages
...his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantageground For pleasure j 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... | |
 | C. E. Alexander - Religious poetry, English - 1886 - 346 pages
...swaying to this faction, or to that ; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambition, nor a vantage ground For pleasure ; but through all...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 - 1886 - 694 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 Fitz Randolph - Ballads, English - 1887 - 344 pages
...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, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens... | |
 | 1888 - 950 pages
...position. What was said of her late lamented Consort, may, with truth, be applied to herself, "1 hro' 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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