 | George Keate - 1790
...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
...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 - 231 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
...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 - 231 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
...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... | |
 | 1879
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 388 pages
...Gilt-head. f " Nobilitas fola eft atque unica, virtus." Juvenal. " Howe'er it be, it feems to me, "Pis only noble to be good; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And fimple faith than Norman blood." Tennyfon. wheel another way, thus it was in the firft and primitive... | |
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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. 
