 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...all the chords with might: Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog,... | |
 | 1867 - 738 pages
...the week's wages at the " Blue Elephant." So true it is that " Ai the husband is, the wife is : thon art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." And she had no one but herself to thank for it, that was the embittering thought. wife, ill-treats... | |
 | 1842 - 610 pages
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...thee happy ?—having known me—to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog,... | |
 | 1843 - 418 pages
...shall lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog,... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...upon the following propositions : H " As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with ac)own, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." How true! This is poetry; for it suggests a long train of thoughts — of the fall of a superior nature... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...shall lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...shall lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog,... | |
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As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. 
