 | Robert Mark Wenley - Pessimism - 1894 - 394 pages
...Eclecticism, praiseworthy in its comparative freedom from prejudice, characterises the poet's attitude. " I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone. . . . I am become... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
..."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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. Blason: See blazon. Blazon: A poem listing the elements of physical attraction. Andrew MarvelTs "To... | |
 | Daniel Brudney - Philosophy - 1998 - 460 pages
...1978), 151. Actually, if Bauer has a literary alter ego, it is Tennyson's Ulysses, who in 1842 says, "I cannot rest from travel: I will drink/ life to the lees" as if the two are the same. The eternal restlessness of Bauer's Self-consciousness is Ulysses' philosophical... | |
 | Matthew Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 292 pages
...unhinged. 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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. The first impression here is of an imperious command of language. It is a king speaking, and his tone... | |
 | Tina Koch, Merilyn Annells, Marina Brown - Aging - 1999 - 212 pages
...do worse than take the last few lines as a motto. During the poem Ulysses is pictured as saying: / cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen - Criticism - 1999 - 460 pages
...22-23: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!"; ll.4-5: "a savage race / That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me." 12 Such an argument assumes that the Arthur who is to "come again" is not merely a return of the Arthur... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...Tennyson 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...travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when... | |
 | Jonathan Shay - History - 2010 - 352 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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. [Emphasis added.] So, in part just to see what happens, Odysseus has his men settle down to dine on... | |
 | Pauline Beard, Robert Liftig, James S. Malek - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 370 pages
...answers. 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, 5 That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to... | |
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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 a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will... 
