 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...love dwelling in his heart and brightly unfolded in his daily life. " It seems to me howe'er it be, 'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." Aristocracy of character is the greatest heraldry of man, and the Gospel... | |
 | 1884 - 626 pages
...no need to mourn the loss of empty names. The substance will remain if the shadows flee away, for " Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be...good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." mrog dttjglisjrfewnratt's .first fisit 10 LETTER I. Mete, August lit. MY... | |
 | 1843 - 414 pages
...your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heaven, above us bent. The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent ;...halls and towers ; The languid light of your proud eye Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, . Yet sickening of a... | |
 | American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...who can say — " Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bert The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent....good : Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood V say we ; and if Tennyson had prothat is beauty. "Madeline," who ranges claimed... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...Green's history. Trust me, Clara Vcre de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tie only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.... | |
 | 1875 - 828 pages
...old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent ; Howe'er it be, it seems to me, "Pis only noble to be good, Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." Besides, most noble Vere de Vere, your life and ours have come from the same... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 412 pages
...Gilt-head. f " Nobilitas fola eft atque unica, virtus." Juvenal. " Howe'er it be, it feems to me, "Pis only noble to be good; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And fimple faith than Norman blood." Tennyfon. wheel another way, thus it was in the firft and primitive... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pages
...the English poet Tennyson, has become the practical rule of life in this our Western World: "However it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." For though some few in our "fashionable world," may ape the arrogant absurdities... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent, The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...can say — " Trust me, Clara Veré de Veré, From yon blue heavens above us ben; The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent....be, it seems to me Tis only noble to be good : Kind hearw are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood 1" So say we ; and if Tennyson had... | |
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Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. 
