 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...memories call, Not being less but more than all The gentleness he seemed to be, So wore his outward best, and joined Each office of the social hour To noble...manners, as the flower And native growth of noble mind ; Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye, Where... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...Not being less but more than all The gentleness he seem'd to be, So wore his outward best, and join'd Each office of the social hour, To noble manners, as the flower And native growth of noble mind ; 171 Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...Not being less but more than all The gentleness he seem'd to be, So wore his outward best, and join'd Each office of the social hour, To noble manners, as the flower And native growth of noble mind ; 171 Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...Not being less but more than all The gentleness he seem'd to be, So wore his outward best, and join'd Each office of the social hour, To noble manners, as the flower And native growth of noble mind ; Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye, Where... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...Not being less but more than all The gentleness he seem'd to be, So wore his outward best, and join'd Each office of the social hour, To noble manners, as the flower Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye, Where... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - Judges - 1851 - 692 pages
...trifling, neither coarse nor flattering, but genuine and frank. " He joined Each office of the social hoar To noble manners, as the flower And native growth of noble mind." His kindness of feeling extended to all persons, and he was, therefore, always polite. To dumb creatures... | |
 | 1852 - 518 pages
...Tennyson concerning the lamented Arthur Hallam, that he, namely, " So wore his outward best, and join'd Each office of the social hour To noble manners, as the flower And native growth of noble mind,— " Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye Where... | |
 | American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...Tennyson concerning the lamented Arthur Hallam, that he, namely, " So wore his outward best, and join'd Each office of the social hour To noble manners, as the flower And native growth of noble mind, — " Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye... | |
 | 1858 - 348 pages
...Tlie genUene?* he seemed to be, So wore his outward best, and join'd Each office of the social hoar t To noble manners, as the flower And native growth of noble mind; Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye, Where... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...being less but more than all The gentleness he seemed to be, But seemed the thing he was, and join'd Each office of the social hour To noble manners, as...native growth of noble mind; And thus he bore without nbuse The grand old name of Gentleman."—Tennyson. " Every thing in Asia—public safety, national... | |
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Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye, Where God and Nature met in light... 
