 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884 - 336 pagini
...but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue...: Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. THE HIGHER PANTHEISM. THE sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains — Are not... | |
 | 1884 - 868 pagini
...comparative littleness " Tennyson strikes a true note in the line where he tells us that Virtue '• Desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the...sky, Give her the wages of going on, and not to die." To cease to grow is to begin to decay. Selfsatisfaction is the spirit's suicide. As Eobert Leighton,... | |
 | 1884 - 322 pagini
...but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue...heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly P She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 pagini
...but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she: Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death: if the wages of Virtue be dust, Wonld she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 302 pagini
...but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue...: Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. XI THE SAILOR BOY HE rose at dawn and, fired with hope, Shot o'er the seething harbour-bar, And reach'd... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 526 pagini
...but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue...: Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. THE HIGHER PANTHEISM. THE sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains — Are not... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 302 pagini
...but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she: Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue...: Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. XI THE SAILOR BOY HE rose at dawn and, fired with hope, Shot o'er the seething harbour-bar, And reach'd... | |
 | Elizabeth Rachel Chapman - 1886 - 282 pagini
...she aimed not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. " The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue...: Give her the wages of going on, and not to die." And Mr. Browning, in one of his recent poems, the beautiful " La Saisiaz," gives us the outcome of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pagini
...but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue...: Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. THE HIGHER PANTHEISM. THE sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains — Are not... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1886 - 422 pagini
...this belief; but the conviction that the universe rests on an eternal basis of truth and goodness. If the wages of virtue be dust, Would she have heart...sky: Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. On many of the great subjects of thought and speculation which have most exercised the minds of men... | |
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The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give... 
