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" As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than... "
The Congregational Review - Page 440
1861
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Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets

Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - 1847
...sympathize with clay. As the husband is, the wife is; thoa art mated with a clown, And the coarseness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down....will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent (ts novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this 1 his...
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature

The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848
...remembered whole. M. Michelet could write a volume of philosophy upon the following propositions : "As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." How true ! This is poetry ; for it suggests a long train of thoughts — of the fall of a superior...
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Select specimens of English prose [ed.] by E. Hughes

Select specimens of English prose [ed.] by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1853
...times, spinning or weaving was the occupation of all sorts and conditions of women. See spinzter. " As the husband is, the wife is ; thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." Tennyson. Windows (from Sax., wind-door). Wine is the Latin vinum, V and W being interchangeable, as...
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The Illustrated London magazine, ed. by R.B. Knowles

The Illustrated London magazine, ed. by R.B. Knowles

Richard Brinsley Knowles - 1867
...at the "Blue Elephant." So true it is that " As the husband is, the wife is : thon art mated with » clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." And she had no one but herself to thank for it, that was the embittering thought. " She would have...
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The Irish Quarterly Review

The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 4, Part 1

History - 1854
...Hall, who declares of his sporting rival — "He will holdthee, when his passion shall have spentits novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse": — and so Michael Banim fell beneath the power of the god who "rules the Camp,the Court,the Grove/'and...
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Poems

Poems

Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson - 1855 - 379 pages
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...eyes are heavy : think not they are glazed with wine. Gro to him : it is thy duty : kiss him : take his hand in thine. It may be my lord is weary, that his...
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Odds and ends, Pictures of town, and Mirth and metre

Odds and ends, Pictures of town, and Mirth and metre

Andrew Wynter, Frank Edward Smedley, Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1855
...happy 1 having once loved me—to wed With a fool who gains his living by his heels and not his head! As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And, pursuing his profession, he will strive to drag thee down. He will hold thee, in the winter, when his...
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Mirth and metre by F.E. Smedley and E.H. Yates

Mirth and metre by F.E. Smedley and E.H. Yates

Francis Edward Smedley, Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1855
...having once loved me — to wed With a fool who gains his living by his heels and not his head I H if As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And, pursuing his profession, he will strive to drag thee down. He will hold thee, in the winter, when his...
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Married women, by the author of 'Broomhill'.

Married women, by the author of 'Broomhill'.

Married women - 1855
...Thou art mated with a clown, * # # * * He will hold thcc, when his passion shall hare spent its noTel force, Something better than his dog — a little dearer than his horse. LOCKSLBT HALL. And now we meet as strangers meet, Even with all the past still unforgot. ANONYMOUS....
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Poems

Poems

Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson - 1856 - 379 pages
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Gk> to him: it is thy duty: kiss him: take his hand in thine. It may be my lord is weary, that his...
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