| 1861 - 634 pages
...like a beast with lower pains ! " Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time." — — a capital prescription to cure any of our Byronic young misanthropes whom some South-sea Melville... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or chine ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of « time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...pleasures, like a beast with lower pains I Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze... | |
| 1893 - 1158 pages
...that dull matter upon which he works and in which he achieves ! Is he not, as described by the poet, The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time ? Is not matter reflex? Is Frankenstein in reality the monster his author protrayed him to be ? Will... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I, that rather hold it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze... | |
| Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 532 pages
...so that to expect the coloured American to stand up at once on a par with the Anglo-American — " The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time," is simply to expect grapes of thorns, and figs of thistles. Before passing on to another subject, it... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 pages
...pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I^that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze... | |
| 1864 - 500 pages
...instructed and one uninstructed as between the living and the dead ; and this generation, which is " The Heir of all the Ages, in the foremost files of Time," shows by its valuing and taking advantage of the new objects so freely offered to its intellect, that... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage—what to me were sun or clime ! I, the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time.— Fool! again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the grey barbarian lower... | |
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