| 1878 - 1002 sider
...less frequently felt, or at any rate proclaimed, by prose-writers, than by preachers and poets : ' I do but sing because I must And pipe but as the linnets sing ;' but there is no doubt that Harriet Martineau was impelled to write these tracts by a burning sense... | |
| 1864 - 998 sider
...the thrush fills the woodland with its vesper music, so does the poet's sorrow seek vent in his song. I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. He takes refuge in his rhymes, not to parade his affliction, but to ease his heart. It is natural also... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 sider
...Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed,... | |
| 1850 - 550 sider
...Her secret from the latest moon ?' Behold, ye speak an idle thing: Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 sider
...Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed,... | |
| 1850 - 1050 sider
...secret from the latest moon ?' — " Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : "And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note has changed,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 sider
...Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed,... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 sider
...of regular education, they bear witness to an inborn faculty for song. She could say, with Tennyson, I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. She was never at school, and the only things in which she was ever regularly trained were French, English... | |
| Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 sider
...with them. The same law-rules both, and clearly manifests itself as an instinct. Man, too, says — " I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing." The neglect of this simple and obvious truth is apparent in much that has been ingeniously and pleasantly... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 sider
...secret from the latest moon ? " Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust ; 1 do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged : And unto one her note is changed,... | |
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