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" Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. "
A Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations, Comprising Idioms ... - Page 77
edited by - 1908 - 532 pages
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Wanderings in Devon

William Henry Hamilton Rogers - 1869 - 238 pages
...such aggravated horrors to the withering glance of merciful indignation, a century afterwards — " Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good." But apropos of Sir Bernard. Let not the visitor who comes this way, after he has looked at Ashe, forget...
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The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. Carpenter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...heavens above us bent. The grand old gardener and his wife smile at the claims of long descent. Hpwe'er it be, it seems to me, 'tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. I know you, Clara Vere de...
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Catholic World, Volume 8

1869 - 880 pages
...incense of thy prayer, For sloth like mine. HEREMORE-BRANDON ; OR, THE FORTUNES OF A NEWSBOY. " HOWK'ER it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets. And simple faith than Norman blood." CHAPTER I. FOUR little boys...
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The Civil service orthography, by E.S.H.B.

E S H. Bagnold - 1870 - 182 pages
...may be necessary to cauterize the wound. ' How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour.' ' Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, . And simple faith than Norman blood.' ' Little dost thou think,...
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Merry's Museum, Parley's Magazine, Woodworth's Cabinet and ..., Volumes 55-56

1870 - 596 pages
...what she sings — four lines that she heard Miss Thome once read, and she never forgets them : — " Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." HELEN W. PIERSON. 17 PICTURES...
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Never mind; or, The lost home. Also, The good scholar, and other stories

Mary Bennett - 1870 - 226 pages
...Lena was resolved to go, carrying with her only the best ambition, coveting only " the best gifts." " Howe'er it be, it seems to me *Tis only noble to be good ; Kind words are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." "To me," said her mother,...
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Stories of the Early Christians

Emily (Aunt.) - 1870 - 194 pages
...common person, for he was born a gentleman. Tennyson, who wrote your favourite ' May Queen,' says, — ' Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good, Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.' " Augustine happily lived...
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Speeches, literary and social. With chapters on 'Charles Dickens as a letter ...

Charles Dickens - 1870 - 406 pages
...is one of us, and who uses his great gifts, as he holds them in trust, for the general welfare — " Howe'er it be, it seems to me "Tis only noble to be good : True hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." * * TENNYSON, Lady Clara...
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Fairy Stories with a Purpose

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1871 - 128 pages
...giving her consent, as soon as silence was restored she began the following talej IV. Sforg of Sir antr "Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." TENNYSON. jNCE upon a time...
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Moor Park, with a biographical sketch of its principal proprietors

Robert Bayne - 1871 - 156 pages
...the characteristic of nobility; " or, as it has been rendered in the beautiful lines of Tennyson,— Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good : Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. His lordship, immediately...
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