 I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of...  Poems - Page 89by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. /, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 558 pages
...vividly is expressed the precious preeminence of European existence, with all its attendant evils ! " Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, Bat I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. / to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...society, as the strain to keep things fixed, us all alike, individuals, schools, and nations." — Arnold. I, TO herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a heast with lower pleasures, like a heast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to... | |
 | East India college - 1856 - 480 pages
...•" Verily thou art a barbarian, and I must not be angry with thee, for the Poet has said : — ' Fool ! again the dream, the fancy, — but I know my words are mad, For I hold the grey barbarian lower than the Christian Cad !' I entered with him, and behold !... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 736 pages
...vividly is expressed the precious preeminence of European existence, with all its attendant evils ! " Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the grey barbarian lower than the Christian child. J to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1858 - 402 pages
...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun ; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...books — Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I Tcnma my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. 7, to herd... | |
 | Arthur Saunders Thomson - Land grants - 1859 - 368 pages
...and they shall run. Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lanees in the sun ; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks....with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books."* The early navigators were the first to arrive, and the whalers and traders followed in their track.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their knees in the sun ; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. 7, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a least with lower pleasures,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun ; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. /, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures,... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1861 - 634 pages
...Avenue may be, the etiquette and morals of Dahomey and the Marquesas are beyond comparison worse. " Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. "/, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures,... | |
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