 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 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... | |
 | 1884 - 626 pages
...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
...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 be 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
...bent. The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent ; 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. I know you, Clara Vere de Vere, You pine among your halls and towers ; The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. 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. I know you, Clara Vere de Vere, You pine among your halls and towers ; The... | |
 | American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...bert The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. 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 V say we ; and if Tennyson had prothat is beauty. "Madeline," who ranges claimed... | |
 | Literature - 1915 - 862 pages
...more, at mention of a drink, will he look with dreaming eyes into the face of his benefactor and say: "Kind hearts are more than coronets And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson, my boy, Tennyson. Do you know it?" No more, after the second hour of drinking, will he raise the question... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tie only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. TENNYSON. The old power of electing the king had its natural counterpart in the power to depose him if he should... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. 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. I know you, Clara Vere de Vere : You pine among your halls and towers : The... | |
 | 1875 - 828 pages
...old gardener and his wife Smile at the 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." Besides, most noble Vere de Vere, your life and ours have come from the same... | |
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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. 
