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" As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than... "
Poems - Page 97
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 231 pages
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

680 pages
...? having loved me to decline — Me I for him, a drivelling idiot, but with longer purse than mine. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something as the mutton shoulder unrelieved by onion sauce. What is this ? his eyes are blackened 1 think not...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...all the chords with might: Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. Comfort ? comfort scorned of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow...
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance

1867 - 738 pages
...the week's wages at the " Blue Elephant." So true it is that " Ai the husband is, the wife is : thon art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." And she had no one but herself to thank for it, that was the embittering thought. wife, ill-treats...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.

John William Carleton - 1869 - 654 pages
...having loved me to decline — Jiff ! for him, a drivelling idiot, bnt with longer purse than mine. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something as the mutton shoulder unrelieved by onion sauce. What is this? his eyes are blackened ! think not...
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The Monthly Review

1842 - 610 pages
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine, Go to him : it is thy duty : kiss him : take...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 33

1843 - 418 pages
...shall lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him : it is thy duty : kiss him :...
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Poems, Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him : it is thy duty : kiss him :...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...upon the following propositions : H " As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with ac)own, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." How true! This is poetry; for it suggests a long train of thoughts — of the fall of a superior nature...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with...dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Goto him: itisthyduty: kisshim: take his hand...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...shall lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathise with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with...dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not thej are glazed with wine. Go to him — it is thy duty : kiss him :...
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