 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...all the chords with might: Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. 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... | |
 | 1867 - 738 pagina’s
...the week's wages at the " Blue Elephant." So true it is that " Ai the husband is, the wife is : thon art mated with a 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pagina’s
...thee happy ?—having known me—to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than 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... | |
 | 1842 - 610 pagina’s
...known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be : thou 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 a clown. And the grossness... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pagina’s
...known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be : thou 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 a clown, And the grossness... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pagina’s
...known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be : thou 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 a clown, And the grossness... | |
 | 1843 - 418 pagina’s
...decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be : thou shall 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 a clown, And the grossness... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...known me— to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shall be : thou 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 a clown, And the grossness... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! Yet it shell be : thou shall 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 a clown, And the grossness... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pagina’s
...happy? — having known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine ! 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... | |
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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... 
