 Much have I seen and known: cities of men, And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honor'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met;...  The North Carolina Historical Review - Page 1331926Full view - About this book
 | F. A. Schwarzenberg - Scientists - 1866 - 254 pages
...science.* We may well apply the words of a modern poet to the great savant : — " I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart, Much have...climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all ! " Through Alexander von Humboldt a whole world is opened to the view of the... | |
 | 1866 - 752 pages
...conversation with her, apparently quito unconscious of the dignity of her position. Since then • Much have I seen and known : cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments ;' until I have long ceased to wonder at anything ; but my recollection of that little cafó remains... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...shore and when r Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; 13 Por always roaming with a hungry heart, Much have I seen and known ; cities oí men, And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, hut honour'd of them all ;... | |
 | Acrostics - 1867 - 302 pages
...known ; cities of meu, And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all ; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy." AEH ... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1868 - 402 pages
...; on shore, and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I...climates, councils, governments. Myself not least, but honour'd of them all ; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1865 - 574 pages
...chief admirers deemed perfect ; yet what can be less Homeric, less Greek indeed, than the lines, ' And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.' Very beautiful are such expressions, but far remote from the Homeric simplicity. Mr. Matthew Arnold's... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...; on shore, and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I...ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - Statesmen - 1869 - 448 pages
...the immortals. Mournfully he may exclaim, as he reviews his diminished prestige and fading power, " Much have I seen and known ; cities of men, And manners,...climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all, And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy... | |
 | 1870 - 612 pages
...not misplaced. He might have said of himself, almost from the beginning, — " 1 am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I...climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honored of them all." And he should be, and is, honored still by those who are familiar with his life... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 1020 pages
...Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly .... I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I...climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all ; And drunk delight of battle with my peers Far on the ringing plains of windy... | |
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