 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...weakness, Tho' at times her spirit sank : Shaped her heart with woman's meekness To all duties of her rank : And a gentle consort made he, And her gentle...lady, And the people loved her much. But a trouble weigh'd upon her, And perplex'd her, night and morn? With the burden of an honor Unto which she was... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1866 - 474 pages
...Burleigh's wife. And it will be said of me as of her — ' But a trouble weighed upon her, And perplexed her night and morn, With the burthen of an honour Unto which she was not born.' " " Don't be sentimental, Ethel. Besides, I am not sure that the Lady of Burleigh really drooped and... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...weakness, Tho' at times her spirits sank : Shaped her heart with woman's meekness To all duties of her rank : And a gentle consort made he, And her gentle...lady, And the people loved her much. But a trouble weigh'd upon her, And perplex'd her, night and morn, With the burthen of an honour Unto which she was... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...weakness, Though at times her spirit sank; Shaped her heart, with woman's meekness, To all duties of her rank : And a gentle consort made he, And her gentle mind was such, That she grew a noble lady, VI. But a trouble weighed upon her, And perplexed her night and morn, With the burden of an honor Unto... | |
 | 1877 - 686 pages
...and mom,'' you know,' responded Archie. ' Yes,' she replied ; and then, .finishing his quotation, ' " With the burthen of an honour unto which she was not born." Just proves what I say.' ' But it's all fiction, Lottie.' 'What is?' ' Why, about her being a " village... | |
 | Dublin University Magazine,A Literary and Political Journal - 1867 - 726 pages
...prosperous lot, and I think she rather shrank from the prospect of a title; it would have weighed upon her "with the burthen of an honour unto which she was not born." Whether she would have grown faint, and even fainter, and finally fainted out of the world altogether... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...weakness, Though at times her spirits sank ; Shaped her heart with woman's meekness, To all duties of her rank: And a gentle consort made he, And her gentle...loved her much. But a trouble weighed upon her, And perplexed her night and morn, AVith the burden of an honour Unto which she was not born. Faint she... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1868 - 366 pages
...weakness, Though at times her spirit sank : Shaped her heart with woman's meekness, To all duties of her rank : And a gentle consort made he ; And her gentle...grew a noble lady, And the people loved her much. But with the rank of our new Countess, for such was now her title, followed duties and trials which Rose,... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 pages
...of the three is very sad. But the philosophy of gentlehood contained in those three lines — • " And her gentle mind was such That she grew a noble lady, And the people loved her much," — is worth the price of a tear. And, then, the end makes it 11 happy and peaceful, though so sad.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 402 pages
...: Shaped her heart with woman's meekness To all duties of her rank : And a gentle consort made he, That she grew a noble lady, And the people loved her much. But a trouble weigh'd upon her, And perplex'd her, night and morn, With the burthen of an honour Unto which she was... | |
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Tho' at times her spirit sank : Shaped her heart with woman's meekness To all duties of her rank : And a gentle consort made he, , And her gentle mind was such That she grew a noble lady, And the people loved her much. But a trouble weigh'd upon her,... 
