...this proud watchword rest Of equal ; seeing either sex alone Is half itself, and in true marriage lies Nor equal, nor unequal : each fulfils Defect in each, and always thought in thought, Purpose in puqwse, will in will, theygrow, The single pure and perfect animal, The two-cell'd heart beating, with...

...legalised connubium. It was the realisation of what our Laureate pictures as the ideal marriage : — "Each fulfils Defect in each, and always thought in thought, Purpose in purpose, mil in will, they grow, The single, pure, and perfect animal ; The two-celrd heart beating, with one...

...this proud watchword rest Of equal ; seeing either sex alone Is half itself, and in true marriage lies Nor equal, nor unequal : each fulfils Defect in each,...That once was mine ! what woman taught you this?" "Alone" I said "from earlier than I know, Immersed in rich foreshado wings of the world, I loved the...

...seeing either sex alone Is half itself, and in true marriage lies Nor equal, nor unemtal : each fulftls Defect in each, and always thought in thought, Purpose...two-cell'd heart beating, with one full stroke, Life." Andagainsighingshespoke : "A dream That once was mine ! what woman taught you this ? " "Alone" I said...

...this proud watchword rest Of equal; seeing either sex nlone IB half itself; and in true marriage lira Nor equal, nor unequal; each fulfils Defect in each,...they grow, The single pure and perfect animal, The two-ceird heart beating, with one full stroke. Life." ' In Memoriam is an elegiac of sorrow-brooding...

...inferior, but planted side by side : — " Either sex alone Is half itself, and in true marriage lies Nor equal nor unequal : each fulfils Defect in each,...thought, Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow." Was there any question of superior or inferior, we wonder, between Faraday and that noble wife of his,...

...presenting the ideal, hardly realizable on earth, of a spiritual union which is also a unity of two in one : The single pure and perfect animal, The two-cell'd heart beating with one full stroke, Life. So Tennyson modernly ; but more in accord with the metaphysical mood of Guido is the old Elizabethan...

...this proud watchword rest Of equal; seeing either sex alone Is half itself; and in true marriage lies Nor equal, nor unequal; each fulfils Defect in each,...two-cell'd heart beating, with one full stroke, Life." • In Memoriam is an elegiac of sorrow-brooding thought, a series of meditations circling around the...

...reality, as well as in name : " Seeing either sex alone, Is half itself, and in true marriage lies Nor equal, nor unequal : each fulfils • Defect in...two-cell'd heart beating, with one full stroke, Life." But though this may be true of the social or domestic aspect of marriage, we have other difficulties...

...this proud watchword rest Of equal ; seeing either sex alone Is half itself, and in true marriage lies Nor equal, nor unequal : each fulfils Defect in each,...thought, Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow, The tingle pure and perfect nnimnl, The two-cclPd heart bcatiug, with one full stroke. Life." And agafn...