 | David G. Riede - 2005 - 236 sayfa
...Tennyson's speaker to idealize the suppression of desire, even if in a strongly Orientalist manner: "For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it,...all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice" (i. 142-43). More important to Tennyson than the specific economic scandals he drew from Carlyle was... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 848 sayfa
...poet is whirled into folly and vice. I would not marvel at cither, but keep a temperate brain ; For For the drift of the Maker is dark, and Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how... | |
 | 1877 - 562 sayfa
...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." Maud, 1 pt iv. 7. Who is the sultan here alluded to ! " That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull, Smelling... | |
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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. 
