...resulted. When they stand in the relation of perfect equilibrium ; when, as Tennyson expresses it, we have Two heads in council, Two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two plummets dropped for one, to sound The abyss of science and the mind, — Then only shall we have the...

...her "husband, friend, critic, adviser, loved by her with a romantic and passionate devotion, — " Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world." Now, in a moment, the " romance of the Queen's life was changed into a tragedy." Years of desolation...

...Lord Tennyson] prophecy is realized: "Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the noisy business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life; Two plummets dropped to sound the abyss of science And the secrets of mankind." The times when a new ideal is molded,...

...Robert and Elizabeth Browning, and to realise to the utmost the beautiful vision of The Princess : Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in...the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind. There is one daughter of the marriage, Miss Helen de G. Verrall, who has inherited largely both the...

...complete humanity resulting from ' Two heads in council ; two beside the hearth ; Two in the noisy business of the world ; Two in the liberal offices of life; Two plummets dropped, To sound the abyss of science and the secrets of the mind.' For the world begins to see that...

...class and of the instruction given. In the course of her lecture, "dilating on the future," she said: "Everywhere, two heads in council, two beside the hearth. Two in the liberal offices of life. Two plummets dropped for one to sound the abyss." After the evening meal the...

...effort to democratize human relationship has set up a standard "Everywhere two heads in counsel, — two beside the hearth, — two in the tangled business of the world." To work that out in practical household experience and in the marriage bond has already cost some stability...