 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...  The Cheltonian - Page 63by Cheltenham College - 1868Full view - About this book
 | 1912 - 524 lehte
...behind her as a memory, and yet has taken with her for her next and higher round of being. "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 or the fly? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove,... | |
 | 1897 - 660 lehte
...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 be dust. Would she have heart to endure for the life of i the worm and the fly? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a... | |
 | 1894 - 840 lehte
...system like this assured us that " our griefs were our gains." " If the wages of virtue," he exclaims, "be dust, would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? " He has not a single idea on the subject; it is the mere primeval religious banter of the infantile... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 928 lehte
...going on, and still to be. right the wrong — Kay, but she aim'd not at glory, no lover The wages of sin is death: if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would...fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet a summer sky; Give her the wages of going on, and not to seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 916 lehte
...the glory of going dn, and The wages oi sin is death: if the wages of Virtue be dust, / / Would >he B.# [ souls of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in J a summe/ sky ; /,' X .' / • Give her... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 332 lehte
...of the light." For a contrast to Byron's pessimism here, cf . Tennyson's Wages : — " The wages of sin is death: if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would...To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky ; Give her the wages of going on, and not to die." II. 325-329. Dear Nature, etc. From the heat... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 330 lehte
...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 be dust, Would...To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. THE HIGHER PANTHEISM THE sun, the moon, the stars,... | |
 | 1899 - 726 lehte
...but she aimed not at glory, no lover of Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would...no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, [mer sky : To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a sumGive her the wages of going on, and not to... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 298 lehte
...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 be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask... | |
 | Francis William Lauderdale Adams - 1899 - 272 lehte
...system like this assured us that ' our griefs were our gains.' ' If the wages of virtue,' he exclaims, ' be dust, would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? ' He has not a single idea on the subject ; it is the mere primaeval religious barter of the infantile... | |
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