 | England - 1849 - 792 pages
...his island-home and kingdom, pants again for enterprise — for wider fields of thought and action. " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among then barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. That... | |
 | England - 1842 - 538 pages
...will suggest the view that is taken of the character and mental state of the great wanderer : — " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...brought home to the imagination, leaves upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. 1 cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...plow of pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pages
...blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...brought home to the imagination, leave upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. " ULYSSES. • " It little profits that an idle king,...among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I meet and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...his island-home and kingdom, pants again for enterprise — for wider fields of thought and action. " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 300 pages
...blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1851 - 434 pages
...the imagination, leave upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. " ULYSSES. u It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags. Matched with an aged wife, I meet and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
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IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole* Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me... 
