 Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great : There is the man.  The Dublin Review - Page 246edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | 1925 - 778 pages
...The truer lance: but there is many a youth Now present who will come to all I am And overcome it; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great: There is the man — pointing to the lung. About this passage Tennyson once said to me: 'When I wrote... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 304 pages
...truer lance : but there is many a youth Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it ; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great : There is the man.' And Lavaine gaped upon him As on a thing miraculous, and anon The trumpets blew... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 256 pages
...truer lance : but there is many a youth Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it ; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great : There is the man." And Lavaine gaped upon him As on a thing miraculous, and anon The trumpets blew... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...marked it ere his time.' In grand consciousness of this, the grand man, though fallen, says himself: ' In me there dwells no greatness, save it be some far-off touch of greatness, to know well I am not great: there (pointing to Arthur), there is the man!' Yes, there is the man; for Lancelot and every other... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 pages
...public portrait, the little intimacies that were our own, unshared. LEONARP HUXLEY. 'THE FAR-OFF TOUCH: In me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great. — ELAINE. THE poet sat in his study, his children played in the garden, and decidedly the children... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...truer lance : but there is many a youth Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great : There is the man.' And Lavaine gaped upon him As on a thing miraculous, and anon The trumpets blew... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...truer lance : but there is many a youth Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it ; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great : There is the man.' And Lavaine gaped upon him As on a thing miraculous, and anon The trumpets blew... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...truer lance : but there is many a youth Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it ; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great : There is the man/ And Lavaine gaped upon him As on a thing miraculous, and anon , The trumpets blew... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 232 pages
...truer lance : but there is many a youth Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it ; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great : There is the man." And Lavaine gaped upon him As on a thing miraculous, and anon The trumpets blew;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...truer lance : but there is many a youth Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great : There is the man." And Lavaine gaped upon him As on a thing miraculous, and anon The trumpets blew... | |
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