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" O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife — Fly hence, our contact... "
Living English poets [selections from their works]. - Page 141
by English poets - 1883 - 325 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 242

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1924 - 506 pages
...criticism was made, we believe, with a reference similar to that contained in Matthew Arnold's lines : ' in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran...Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife ' — that is to say, when games were played for fun and for no other reason. It is not our way to...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 208

1896 - 854 pages
...poem, "The Scholar Gipsy," he breaks forth once more into the old note of condemnation and regret: — O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And...palsied hearts, was rife, Fly hence, our contact fear! This is only half a stanza, and there are ten whole ones— in fact almost half of the poem— in the...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 200

1894 - 854 pages
...particular mood which is specially characteristic of Arnold. In the " Scholar Gipsy " he laments " the strange disease of modern life,'' With Its sick hurry, Its divided aims ; speaks of us " light half-believers of our casual creeds ; " tells how the wisest of us takes dejectedly...
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Notes and Queries

1911 - 588 pages
...Countrymen.' B'IBORO. Matthew Arnold uses the phrase " sick hurry " in ' The Scholar-Gipsy,' stanza 21 : — This strange disease of modern life. With its sick hurry, its divided aim°. ALFRED ANSCOMBE. RVIKKS CENTENARY (11 S. iii. 306). — In the entry of the marriage of Robert...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 298 pages
...side, a truant boy, Nursing thy project in unclouded joy, And every doubt long blown by time away. O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And...life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife — Fly hence, our contact fear ! Still fly, plunge deeper...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...side, a truant boy, Nursing thy project in unclouded joy, And every doubt long blown by time away. fO born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life...life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife — Fly hence, our contact fear ! Still fly, plunge deeper...
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Poems and Essays, Volume 2

William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...his mourning notes over the perplexities and distracting influences thrust upon the heart and mind in this " Strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its head o'er-tasked, its palsied heart—" are apt to degenerate into mere bewailments. It is the part...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 75

1913 - 532 pages
...mechanism). Eucken does not wish to come before us as the scholar or the scientific recluse stricken with ' this strange disease of modern life With its sick...divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts.' He is sensitive to the world-movement of to-day, over its whole surface. ' The intellectual conflict,'...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 91

1878 - 800 pages
...Light half-believers of our casual creeds. Or again, from the sad and splendid " Scholar Gipsy " : — This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. Who is not familiar with the epigrammatic passage from the same poem? — Wandering between two worlds,...
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The University Magazine, Volume 1

1878 - 794 pages
...Light half -believers of our casual creeds. Or again, from the sad and splendid " Scholar Gipsy" : — This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. "Who is not familiar with the epigrammatic passage from the samepoem? — Wandering between two worlds,...
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