Alfred Tennyson citáty page 6

„Lepšie je milovať a stratiť, ako nikdy nemilovať.“

Prisudzované výroky

„Šťastie človeka v tomto živote nespočíva v absencii, ale v ovládaní jeho vášní.“

„Keď sa mi v mlynský kameň obráti srdce, stratím tvár.
Klamať, byť oklamaný zomrieť. Ktovie? Sme popol a prach.“

“For nothing worthy proving can be proven,
Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise,
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt,
And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith!”

z diela Maud
Potvrdené výroky

Alfred Tennyson: Citáty v angličtine

“First pledge our Queen this solemn night,
Then drink to England, every guest;
That man's the best Cosmopolite
Who loves his native country best.”

From The Ancient Sage (1885), lines 66-69

“Fires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes fall'n away.
Cold upon the dead volcano sleeps the gleam of dying day.”

" Hands All Round http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/tiresias/handsallround.html", l. 1-4 (1885)

“My God, I would not live
Save that I think this gross hard-seeming world
Is our misshaping vision of the Powers
Behind the world, that make our griefs our gains.”

Stanza 21
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)

“The golden guess
Is morning-star to the full round of truth.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Sisters

The Sisters, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that utter'd nothing base.”

Columbus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“All night have the roses heard
The flute, violin, bassoon;
All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
To the dancers dancing in tune;
Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
And a hush with the setting moon.”

To the Queen, st. 3 (1851)

“You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;
Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year;
Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.”

Part I, section xxii, stanza 3
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

“Who can fancy warless men?
Warless? War will die out late then. Will it ever? late or soon?
Can it, till this outworn earth be dead as yon dead world the moon?”

" The May Queen http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tmq.htm", st. 1 (1832)

“Death's truer name
Is "Onward," no discordance in the roll
And march of that Eternal Harmony
Whereto the world beats time.”

Zdroj: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 172

“My lord, you know what Virgil sings—
Woman is various and most mutable.”

The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale

“For now the poet can not die,
Nor leave his music as of old,
But round him ere he scarce be cold
Begins the scandal and the cry.”

Act iii, scene 6
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)

“So many minds did gird their orbs with beams,
Tho' one did fling the fire;
Heaven flow'd upon the soul in many dreams
Of high desire.”

To ———, after reading a Life and Letters, stanza 4, from Poems (1850)

“O Love! what hours were thine and mine,
In lands of palm and southern pine;
In lands of palm, of orange-blossom,
Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere

The Poet (1830)

“A shadow flits before me,
Not thou, but like to thee:
Ah Christ, that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell us
What and where they be.”

The Daisy, Stanza 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.”

Part II, section iv, stanza 3
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

“It was the time when lilies blow,
And clouds are highest up in air.
Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe
To give his cousin, Lady Clare.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson kniha Ulysses

Zdroj: Ulysses (1842), l. 1-5

“A breath that fleets beyond this iron world
And touches him who made it.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clare

Lady Clare (1842)

“Well, Gosse, would you like to know what I think of Churton Collins? I think he's a Louse on the Locks of Literature.”

Harold, Act iii, Scene 2

“On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And through the field the road runs by
To many-towered Camelot.”

Evan Charteris, Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (1931), p. 197

“For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott

Pt. I, st. 1
The Lady of Shalott (1832)

“You sought to prove how I could love,
And my disdain is my reply.
The lion on your old stone gates
Is not more cold to you than I.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar

St. 4
Crossing the Bar (1889)

“Charm us, orator, till the lion look no larger than the cat.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere

Stanza 3
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)

“When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought out a noble knight.”

Zdroj: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 112

“All in the blue unclouded weather
Thick-jewelled shone the saddle-leather,
The helmet and the helmet-feather
Burned like one burning flame together,
As he rode down to Camelot.”

Zdroj: Morte D'Arthur (1842), Lines 230-231

“Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet —
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott

Pt. III, st. 3
The Lady of Shalott (1832)

“Authors—essayist, atheist, novelist, realist, rhymester, play your part,
Paint the mortal shame of nature with the living hues of art.”

"The Higher Pantheism", st. 6 (1869)

“Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls,
Come hither, the dances are done,
In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls,
Queen lily and rose in one;
Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls,
To the flowers, and be their sun.”

Zdroj: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 139

“Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.”

Part I, section xxii, stanza 9
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

“Slav, Teuton, Kelt, I count them all
My friends and brother souls,
With all the peoples, great and small,
That wheel between the poles.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar

St. 1
Crossing the Bar (1889)