...Tennyson's — sentiments most unmistakeably appear in those unworthy lines, " For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all...day like the Sultan of old in a garden of spice." lines worthier a place in the Horatian philosophy — nil admirari — than in Tennyson. What the object...

...her babe for a burial fee, And Timour Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones." Maud, 1 pt. i. 12. "Walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice." Mawlj 1 pt. iv. 7. Who is the sultan here alluded to ( " That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull, Smelling...

...folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how...

...folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God...

...has come, it would seem, irretrievably, to the gloomy conclusion that " Not to desire or admire .... were more than to walk all day, like the sultan of old, in a garden of spice." But now how strangely has this habit of mind been disturbed ! Once in a while, years and years ago,...

...volumes devoted to the life and correspondence of the " gentle Elia," a recreation more delightful " than to walk all day, like the sultan of old, in a garden of spice." Reviewing has been so entirely exhausted upon his writings, and his reputation is so well and fixedly...

...folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how...

...folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. 8. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how...

...folly and vice. I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain ; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. VOL. n. 8 8. For the drift of the Maker is dart, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the...

...folly and vice. I would not marvel at cither, but keep a temperate brain; For not to desiro and admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all...day, like the sultan of old, in a garden of spice. For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God...