 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...love dwelling in his heart and brightly unfolded in his daily life. " It seems to me howe'er it be, 'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." Aristocracy of character is the greatest heraldry of man, and the Gospel... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...And, last, you fixed a vacant stare, And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The grand old...and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Ilowe'cr it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And... | |
 | 1884 - 626 pages
...no need to mourn the loss of empty names. The substance will remain if the shadows flee away, for " Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be...good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." mrog dttjglisjrfewnratt's .first fisit 10 LETTER I. Mete, August lit. MY... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to...good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. I know you, Clara Vere de Vere, You pine among your halls and towers ; The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent....good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. I know you, Clara Vere de Vere, You pine among your halls and towers ; The... | |
 | 1843 - 414 pages
...your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heaven, above us bent. The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent ;...good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. I know you, Clara Vere de Vere, You pine among your halls and towers ; The... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...who can say — " Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bert The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent....good : Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood V say we ; and if Tennyson had prothat is beauty. "Madeline," who ranges claimed... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...And, last, you fix'da vacant stare, And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The grand old...good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. I know you, Clara Vere de Vere : You pine among your halls and towers : The... | |
 | 1875 - 828 pages
...to some titled aristocrat or feaJal lord, be it ours to say — . " Believe u§, noble Vere do Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent, The grand old...claims of long descent ; Howe'er it be, it seems to me, "Pis only noble to be good, Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood."... | |
 | 1871 - 792 pages
...descended from aa ancient family," whose head was Adam arid whose home was in Eden. " From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent." — Tennyson. Then as to respectability, what shall we say of that ? -In itself the word is respectable... | |
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Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. 
