 | 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
...to mourn the loss 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
...him with your noble 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
...heaven, above us 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
...blue heavens above us 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
...blue heavens above us 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...heavens above us bent 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 412 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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pages
...expressed by the English poet Tennyson, has become the practical rule of life in this our Western World: "However it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to...good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." For though some few in our "fashionable world," may ape the arrogant absurdities... | |
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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. 
