What a noble human being ! I expected to see a hero and I was not disappointed. One cannot exactly say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal knight, "As meke he was of port as is a maid " ; he is more majestic than meek, and his manners have a certain... The Life and Times of Cavour - Página 160por William Roscoe Thayer - 1911Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 602 páginas
...cannot exactly say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal knight, "As meke he was of port as is a maid "; he is more majestic than meek, and his manners have...gentler than those of most young maidens whom I know. He came here and smoked his cigar in my little room and we had a half hour's talk in English, tho'... | |
| Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 614 páginas
...exactly say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal knight, "As meke he was of port as is a maid " ; he is more majestic than meek, and his manners have...gentler than those of most young maidens whom I know. He came here and smoked his cigar in my little room and we had a half hour's talk in English, tho'... | |
| Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 604 páginas
...cannot exactly say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal knight, "As meke he was of port as is a maid"; he is more majestic than meek, and his manners have...gentler than those of most young maidens whom I know. He came here and smoked his cigar in my little room and we had a half hour's talk in English, tho'... | |
| Evan J. Cuthbertson - 1898 - 138 páginas
...exactly say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal knight, "as G meke he was of port as is a maid ; " he is more majestic than meek, and his manners have...gentler than those of most young maidens whom I know.' In this year, at the Queen's request, he wrote some lines for the Duchess of Kent's statue in the mausoleum... | |
| Arthur Patchett Martin - 1898 - 32 páginas
...exactly say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal knight, • As meke he was of port as is a maid ; ' he is more majestic than meek, and his manners have...gentler than those of most young maidens whom I know. He came here and smoked his cigar in my little nyom, and we had a half hour's talk in English, tho'... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 376 páginas
...exactly say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal knight, " As meke he was of port as is a maid " ; he is more majestic than meek, and his manners have...gentler than those of most young maidens whom I know. He came here and smoked his cigar in my little room and we had a half hour's talk in English, tho'... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 630 páginas
...cannot say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal knight, " As meke he was of port as is a maid ; " he is more majestic than meek, and his manners have...have never witnessed in a native of these islands. . . . — Yours, A. TENNYSON. ED.] /. 475. Verse ix. your tale of lands I know not. The tale of Nejd.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 628 páginas
...cannot say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal knight, " As meke he was of port as is a maid ; " he is more majestic than meek, and his manners have...have never witnessed in a native of these islands. . . . — Yours, A. TENNYSON. ED.] /. 475- Verse ix. your tale of lands I know not. The tale of Nejd.... | |
| George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1911 - 488 páginas
...cannot exactly say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal Knight, "As meke he was of port as is a maid." He is more majestic than meek, and his manners have...gentler than those of most young maidens whom I know.' In worldly matters, Tennyson noted that he had ' the divine stupidity of a hero.'1 During the same... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1913 - 1092 páginas
...cannot exactly say of him what Chaucer says of the ideal knight, "As meke he was of port as is a maid"; long-arm'd vines with grapes Of Eshcol hugeness; for...Lenten fare makes Lenten thought, Who reads your He came here and smoked his cigar in my little room and we had a half hour's talk in English, tho'... | |
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