 | Mary Bennett - Children - 1860 - 172 pages
...resolved to go, carrying with her only the best ambition, coveting only " the best gifts." " Howe'er it be, it seems to me ' Tis only noble to be good ; Kind words are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." warning ; ' Never Mind ' was our... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 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. 1 know you, Clara Vere de Vere : You pine among your halls and towers, The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 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. 1 know you, Clara Vere de Vere : You pine among your halls and towers, The... | |
 | William Landels - Conduct of life - 1861 - 280 pages
...heavens above us bent. The grand old gardener and hia 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." The history of the Church is replete with instances of heroism, which shew... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 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... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...the souls of women. — Carlyle. The boast of those who cannot boast of anything else. — 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. Tennyson. — Nobility of blood Is but a glitt'ring and fallacious good. The... | |
 | Law - 1861 - 420 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. Tennyson. IT was but a few days after the conversation recorded in the last... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...His daily prayer, far better understood In acts than words, was simply doing good. WHITTLEE. Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. TENNYSON. More sweet than odors caught by hi™ who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...justice in the scale Their good and evil weighs. SOUTHEY. 80. GOODNESS THE ONLY TRUE NOBILITY. HOWE'EB it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. True hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith, than Norman blood. 81. FKOJt INDIA. " O, COME... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - Benevolence - 1861 - 412 pages
...never failed to distinguish the men and women of this family. " Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." Harriet Martineau, one of a family of eight children, was born on the 12th... | |
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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. 
