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" 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, and feed, and know not me. "
Gibson's London matriculation guide, by J. Gibson [and others]. - Page 14
1882
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The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...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 Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed,...
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The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Poet Laureate

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...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 Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed,...
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Miscellaneous poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 302 pages
...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...race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not ma I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have...
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The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of ...

Charles Mills Gayley - English poetry - 1893 - 652 pages
...be happy, — growing tired of inaction and resolving to set forth again in quest of new adventures. "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 tV-^-c Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and...
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The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of ...

Charles Mills Gayley - English literature - 1893 - 642 pages
...happy, — growing tired of inaction and resolving to set forth again in quest of new adventures. . " 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,...
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Travelers to an Antique Land: The History and Literature of Travel to Greece

Robert Eisner - History - 1991 - 340 pages
...Tennyson, following Dante's lead, has Ulysses belittle Ithaca and Penelope before leaving them again. Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees . . . . my purpose holds To sail beyond the...
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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art, Based Originally on ...

Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...be happy, — growing tired of inaction and resolving to set forth again in quest of new adventures. 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,...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. (1. 39-40) AWP; ChTr; GTBS-P; NoP; OAEL-2; PoEL-5 128 every herb that (1. 1—5) 129 I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. (1. 6-7) 130 Much have I seen...
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Transforming Texts: Classical Images in New Contexts

Robert Paul Metzger - Philosophy - 1993 - 116 pages
...Ithaca after a twenty-year absence, then extends it. Ulysses, or Odysseus, must set out again. Ulysses It little profits that an idle king, By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered...
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The Letter Carrier

William J. Leonard - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 388 pages
...somewhere in France to me, an Army chaplain half a world away in the New Guinea jungle: Dear Father: It little profits that, an idle king, By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. Remember, Father? Merry Christmas! George I can never look at that "V-Mail" greeting without a pang....
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