 | 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...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful... | |
 | 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 loved, to have thought, to have done ; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful... | |
 | 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...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes, — That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 pages
...their own wisest, confronts their fancies as before. " Fools ! that so often here Happiness mocked onr prayer, I think, might make us fear A like event elsewhere...that life can yield him. Let the wiser man, like him, tmst without fear the joys that are; life has room for effort and enjoyment, though at sight of the... | |
 | 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...spring, To 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... | |
 | 1885 - 478 pages
...think, might make us fear A like event elsewhere — Make us not fly to dreams, but moderate desire. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...Spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes . " I say : Fear not ! Life still Leaves... | |
 | 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 loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes — That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful... | |
 | Emily Lawless (hon.) - 1882 - 298 pages
... BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD A CHELSEA HOUSEHOLDER. *' Is it a little thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done? ' IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: M. ARNOLD. SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS,... | |
 | Emily Lawless (hon.) - 1882 - 372 pages
...600073099Y BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD A CHELSEA HOUSEHOLDER. " Is it a little thins To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ?" M. ARNOLD. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS,... | |
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