 Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live, and lie reclined On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind. 155 For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys,...  The life of the soul in the world - Page 208by Frederick Charles Woodhouse - 1881 - 369 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,...roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and naming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a... | |
 | Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...nectar, and their bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and naming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.— Surely, surely slumber is more sweet than toil;... | |
 | Alfred Barry - 1848 - 374 pages
...weary course, while you " live and lie reclined On the hills, like gods together, careless of mankind ; For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are...earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging iights, and ilaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands — But they smile." Oh, place for... | |
 | 1861 - 372 pages
...the hills liko gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts an hurled Far below them In the valleys, and the clouds...Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands. • * * • • But they -mile, they find a music centred in s doleful song." 210 211 brings inevitable... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 398 pages
...laughter," as of Tennyson's Epicurean Gods. Careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and their bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and...their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. There they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands^ Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 312 pages
...laughter," as of Tennyson's Epicurean Gods. Careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and their bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. There they smile in secret, looking over... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1851 - 746 pages
...Tennyson's Epicurean gods — Careless of mankind, — For they lie beside their nectar, and their bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and...their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. There they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, playue and earthquake, roaring... | |
 | 1851 - 724 pages
...Tennyson's Epicurean gods — Careless of mankind, — For they lie beside their nectar, and their bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. There they smile in secret, looking over... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 1054 pages
...careless of mankind," like those mighty gods " That lie beside their nectar, and the bolt* are hnrled far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world." July was so called by Marc Antony, in... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1852 - 390 pages
...as of Tennyson's Epicurean Gods — Careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and their bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Hound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. There they smile in secret, looking over... | |
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