 We have had enough of action, and of motion we, Roll'd to starboard, roll'd to larboard, when the surge was seething free, Where the wallowing monster spouted his foamfountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow...  Mahometanism - Page 73by John Gibson Cazenove - 1856 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Lucas Collins - Literary Criticism - 1877 - 424 pages
...Lotus- Eaters : " — " Let ns swear an oath, and keep jt with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotus-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind." See the whole of the passage. Had Horace known anything of natural science, he might not have gone... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 262 pages
...foam-fountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together,...For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - Birds - 1878 - 472 pages
...barren foam." To men thus disconsolate it might be a source of happiness, " In the hollow lotos-land to live and lie reclined, On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind. " But most of us would desire some activity of life around us. Mr. Gosse paints a glorious picture... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, ln the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reelined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind....are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the elonds are lightly curl'd Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world: Where they smile... | |
 | Edward Bradbury - Derbyshire (England) - 1879 - 170 pages
...of us has said : — Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotus-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. The indulgence of another pipe, and then " quick march." Locko Park gives access to a second country... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 464 pages
...the voyagers agree to " swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind," to remain in the Lotos-land, and " lie reclined on the hills like gods together, careless of mankind." Then follows a picture of the gods in their high abodes : — For they lie beside their nectar, and... | |
 | PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...the voyagers agree to " swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind," to remain in the Lotos-land, and " lie reclined on the hills like gods together, careless of mankind." Then follows a picture of the gods in their high abodes: For they lie beside their nectar, and the... | |
 | John Weiss - Immortality - 1880 - 296 pages
...won it into perpetual peace, and promote it to immunity from action, — "In the hollow Lotus-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind ? " They will not so easily be cajoled out of their old opinion, which Milton shared, who said, " I... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1880 - 436 pages
...is no joy but calm ; or, in their 'fugitive and cloistered virtue,' as Milton calls it, say, let us live and lie reclined On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind. ATHERTON. Some; not all, however. Neither should we suppose that even those who have sunk to such a... | |
 | 1882 - 552 pages
...forgotten things. They swear to dwell in the "hollow lotus land," and, propt on beds of amaranth, "They live and lie reclined On the hills, like gods together, careless of mankind." The May Queen is familiar to every reader of Tennyson. It is the result of an effort put forth in the... | |
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