 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, and feed, and know not me.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4311849Full view - About this book
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 580 pages
...hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar. — Demeter, and Other Poems. 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,... | |
 | John Oates - Didactic poetry, English - 1898 - 366 pages
...strife and action ; but now he feels his strength is being sapped by an indolent, self-indulgent life. " 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." Caged like some bird with... | |
 | Walter Hobhouse - English literature - 1898 - 178 pages
...eTrei crK\rjpov Oeiav fipoTOicriv ava\afleiv xapiv, <rK\rjpov Se OecrOai Kocrftov avT a XLI. 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 Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 344 pages
...rest and home, but it was apparently suggested by Dante's Ulysses. See his speech Inferno xxvi. 94126. 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 Herbert Lewis - American literature - 1899 - 440 pages
...it conveys. Could any painting represent all that is suggested here ? ULYSSES ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...(1885), "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After* (1886;), "The Foresters" and "The Death of (Enone " (1802)]. 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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 568 pages
..."Tiresias," 1885; "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," 1886; "The Foresters" and "The Death of (Enone," 1892.] 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,... | |
 | William E. Cain - Fiction - 1984 - 268 pages
...wonder if it is not the very self that fails. Ulysses blames his failure to be himself on circumstance: 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... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - English Poetry - 1985 - 322 pages
...Doctor, a knaws naw moor nor a floy; Git ma my yaale I tell tha, an' gin I mun doy I mun doy. 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,... | |
 | Adena Rosmarin - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 218 pages
...passages or in spite of them. First, the opening wherein Ulysses repudiates his people and his wife: 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,... | |
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