 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 4401861Full view - About this book
 | George Spencer Bower - 1878
...rather than as an end in itself, imparting deeper tones and possibilities to human existence : — " He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dug, a little dearer than his horse." In their best days the EomaMS thought it a high privilege, as... | |
 | W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. - Literary Criticism - 1954 - 299 pages
...As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature shall have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee,...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. The young man in Locksley Hall who muses thus is not only a bad young man but a callow one. There is... | |
 | 1883
...poet, reasoning according to the dictates of worldly experience, "As the husband is, the wife ie ; thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down ! " But it is in situations such as these, Tennyson to the contrary, that the children of light reverse... | |
 | David B. Pirie - Education - 2002 - 139 pages
...side. Where they are not, maintain the space by writing out the last few words of each line just below: As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. (Tennyson, 'Locksley Hall', 11. 47-50) You must reproduce the text's own typography as far as possible.... | |
 | Gene Stratton-Porter - Juvenile Fiction - 1988 - 401 pages
...reading such interesting things that I decided to listen. After a while she came to this: "Thou are mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature, will have weight to bear thee down." Laddie threw back his head, and how he laughed ! The Princess put down the book and... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 343 pages
...glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English poet In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1132 pages
...with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. (I. 31—34) 71 As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, (1. 47) 72 Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth! Cursed be the social... | |
 | Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 510 pages
...must be brought about by working with, not against—by sec13. Tennyson, "Locksley Hall," ll. 47—50: "As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse." onding, not opposing—Nature's laws. Woman, seeking as a woman, may raise her position; seeking as... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Poetry - 1995 - 232 pages
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. 50 What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him: it is thy duty:... | |
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