 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they und a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a talc of little meaning tho' tbe word« are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that с]еате... | |
 | 1872 - 606 pages
...prosaic its subject, assumes the character of IS 72. The Church, the Land, and the Liberals. 289 ' A lamentation, and an ancient tale of wrong, Like...tale of little meaning, tho' the words are strong ; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 532 pages
...deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful...and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little rnvming, though the words ara strong ; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 350 pages
...ships, and praying hands. Bnt they smile, they lind a mnsic centred in a dolefnl song Steaming np, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong ; Chanted from an ill-nsed race of men that cleave the soil. Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...expressed a similar idea in the description of the epicurean gods of the "Lotos Platers" — " For they smile; they find a music centred in a doleful...ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning, though the words are strong." 96 A sense sublime, &c. These lines are a wonderfully beautiful expression... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 180 pages
...deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful...a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a talc of little meaning tho' the words are strong ; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave... | |
 | Noble Butler - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1874 - 342 pages
...longer verses it is made where the verse seerns to be divided into two nearly equal verses ; as, "But they smile, they find a music |! centred in a doleful song Steaming up a lamentation || and an aneient tale of wrong."— Tenayson. In the shorter verses there is no pause, unless one is demanded... | |
 | William Fearing Gill - American literature - 1875 - 472 pages
...deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful...a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong ; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1875 - 336 pages
...deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful...a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong ; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with... | |
 | 1875 - 780 pages
...well have conceived the earth as a smaller anthropological garden for those gods who were supposed to find, — " A music centred in a doleful song, Steaming...wrong, Like a tale of little meaning, tho' the words were strong ; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow the seed and reap the... | |
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Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong; Chanted... 
