 | 1869 - 406 pages
...but 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...and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no qmet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky: Give her the wages of... | |
 | American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...if she aim at glory she is not virtue at all : " She desires no isles of the blest, noquiet seatsof the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in...! Give her the wages of going on, and not to die." This confession cuts away all supposition that Mr. Tennyson attributes any real goodness to the quietude... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 878 pages
...at glory she is not virtue at all : She desires no isles of the blest, no seats of the just, quiet To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer...sky, Give her the wages of going on. and not to die." This confession cuts away all supposition that Mr. Tennyson attributes any real goodness to the quietude... | |
 | 1884 - 874 pages
...or 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...rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky, Giro her the wages of going on, and not to die." To cease to grow is to begin to decay. Selfsatisfaction... | |
 | Cheltenham College - Endowed public schools (Great Britain) - 1868 - 412 pages
...aimed not at glory, no lover of glory she* Give her the glory of going on>and still to be. The wages oT sin is death ; if the wages of virtue be dust, Would...To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer skyt GIVE HER THE GLORY OF GOING ON, AND NOT TO DIE. That is not so bad as the Victim, but it is not... | |
 | 1868 - 874 pages
...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. No. 100. — VOL. xvii. 272 EECOLLECTIONS OF PHILAEET, AECHBISHOP AND METEOPOLITAN OF MOSCOW. THE recent... | |
 | 1868 - 556 pages
...but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Wve 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 ? •shc desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 208 pages
...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...sky: 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 (1st baron.) - 1870 - 242 pages
...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 these,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue he dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life...sky: 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... | |
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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... 
