...but we feel sure, not Tennyson's — sentiments most unmistakeably appear in those unworthy lines, " For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn...day like the Sultan of old in a garden of spice." lines worthier a place in the Horatian philosophy — nil admirari — than in Tennyson. What the object...

...her babe for a burial fee, And Timour Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones." Maud, 1 pt. i. 12. "Walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice." Mawlj 1 pt. iv. 7. Who is the sultan here alluded to ( " That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull, Smelling...

...bounded The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God...

...bounded The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how...

...has come, it would seem, irretrievably, to the gloomy conclusion that " Not to desire or admire .... were more than to walk all day, like the sultan of old, in a garden of spice." But now how strangely has this habit of mind been disturbed ! Once in a while, years and years ago,...

...volumes devoted to the life and correspondence of the " gentle Elia," a recreation more delightful " than to walk all day, like the sultan of old, in a garden of spice." Reviewing has been so entirely exhausted upon his writings, and his reputation is so well and fixedly...

...poor ; The passionate heart of the poet is whirl' d into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how...

...poor ; Tlje passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how...

...poor ; The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. VOL. n. 8 8. For the drift of the Maker is dart, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the...

...poor ; The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly and viceI would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or...more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God...