 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...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. VIII. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 508 pages
...passionate heart of the poet is whirl M into folly and vice. 1 would not marvel at either, but keep :\ temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. VIII. For the drift of tho Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world,... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 1888 - 290 pages
...not console me for all the tantalizing drape ry and golden bric-a-brac I was unable to purchase. " Not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it,...walk all day like the Sultan of old in a garden of •pice." The truly wise would n't go to the shop of Selam-Ben-Khaman .' Passing out into the open... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - 894 pages
...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. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...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 admire,...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. VIII. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...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 admire,...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. VIII. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world,... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1892 - 164 pages
...Pray don't ask us to give an opinion, or show an interest, or discuss any serious view of things." " For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn...day, like the Sultan of old, in a garden of spice." " Let us surround ourselves with every luxury ; let us cease to strive or fret ; let us be elegant,... | |
 | 1892 - 390 pages
...place comes the happiness of feeling that we are master of our desires no less than of our actions. " For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn...day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice." By controlling all our senses and appetites we do not therefore blunt them — we keep the keen capacity... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...Him when and wheresoever He reveals Himself, is the one sole blessedness of man on earth. Goethe. 15 Tennyson. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. Milton. Not to know what has been transacted In... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 614 pages
...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. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God... | |
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For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 
