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" Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes... "
The Melbourne Review - Page 88
1885
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 pages
...: Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have lived, to have thought, to have done, To have advanced true friends and beat down baffling foes ? CORNELL, 210 WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE: IN TIME OF WAR. THE moment seems opportune for probing the soundness...
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...judgment all embroiled By sadness and self-will, Shall we judge what for man is not true bliss or is ? Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while we dream on this, Lose all our present...
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1868 - 264 pages
...self-will, Shall we judge what for man is not true bliss or is? Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have...advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while we dream on this, Lose all our present...
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...self-will, Shall we judge what for man is not true bliss or is ? Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have...advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while we dream on this, Lose all our present...
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Old and New, Volume 5

1872 - 842 pages
...and not be putting off both goodness and happiness to some far-off, divine world across the Jordan. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes, — That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while we dream on this, Lose all our present...
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Old and New, Volume 5

Edward Everett Hale - 1872 - 796 pages
...goodness and happiness to some far-off, divine world across the Jordan. " Is it so small a thing To huvc enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; i To have advanced true friends, and heat down baffling foes, — That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful...
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Essays and Studies

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 pages
...repine because debarred from dreams of a distant and dubious happiness in a world outside of ours. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ? " The poorest villager feels that it is not so small a thing that he should not be loth to lose the...
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Essays and studies (chiefly repr. from the Fortnightly review).

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 pages
...repine because debarred from dreams of a distant and dubious happiness in a world outside of ours. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ? " The poorest villager feels that it is not so small a thing that he should not be loth to lose the...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 27

1877 - 938 pages
...on Etna assigns to human existence in itself, without thought of a possible future. " Is it a little thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light...have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have helped friends and boat down baffling foes ?" All this Titian enjoyed for a full century, and because...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 392 pages
...self-will, Shall we judge what for man is not true bliss or is? Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have...advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes — That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while we dream on this, Lose all our present...
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