 And yet what days were those, Parmenides ! When we were young, when we could number friends In all the Italian cities like ourselves, When with elated hearts we join'd your train. Ye Sun-born Virgins ! on the road of truth. Then we could still enjoy,...  Matthew Arnold - Page 35by Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1902 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1865 - 820 pages
...defects and even excesses, but containing also these lines : " And yet what days were those, Parmenides I When we were young, when we could number friends In...cities like ourselves, When with elated hearts we joined your train, Te Sun-born virgins ! on the road of Truth. Then we could still enjoy, then neither... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1864 - 446 pages
...and even excesses, but containing also these lines : — " And yet what days wore those, Parmcnides ! When we -were young, when we could number friends In all the Italian cities like ourselves, AVheii with elated hearts we join'd your train, Ye Sun-born virgins ! on the. road of Truth. Then we... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865 - 822 pages
...Empedocles — a poem undoubtedly containing defects and even excesses, but containing also these lines : " And yet what days were those, Parmenides ! When we...cities like ourselves, When with elated hearts we joined your train, Ye Sun-born virgins! on the road of Truth. Then we could atill enjoy, then neither... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...and only death Shall cut his oscillations short, and so Bring him to poise. There is no other way. And yet what days were those, Parmenides ! When we...cities like ourselves, When with elated hearts we joined your train, Ye Sun-born Virgins ! on the road of truth. 2 Then we could still enjoy, then neither... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...and only death Shall cut his oscillations short, and so Bring him to poise. There is no other way. And yet what days were those, Parmenides! When we...your train, Ye Sun-born Virgins! on the road of truth 2 . Then we could still enjoy, then neither thought Nor outward things were closed and dead to us,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 pages
...it is still Mr. Arnold that speaks through him : " And yet what days were those, Parmenidesl ******* Then we could still enjoy, then neither thought Nor outward things were closed and dead tous, But we received the shock of mighty thoughts On simple minds with a pure natural... | |
 | 1877 - 900 pages
...down Regent Street for something like two hours in the vain attempt to find Oxford Street ; — ' ' And yet what days were those, Parmenides, When we...cities like ourselves, When with elated hearts we joined your train, Ye sun-born virgins, on the road of truth. Then we could still enjoy, then neither... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 396 pages
...and only death Shall cut his oscillations short, and so Bring him to poise. There is no other way. And yet what days were those, Parmenides! When we...train, Ye Sun-born Virgins ! on the road of truth. 1 ' Then we could still enjoy, then neither thought Nor outward things were closed and dead to us;... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 392 pages
...and only death Shall cut his oscillations short, and so Bring him to poise. There is no other way. And yet what days were those, Parmenides! When we...elated hearts we join'd your train, Ye Sun-born Virgins 1 on the road of truth.1* Then we could -still enjoy, then neither thought Nor outward things were... | |
 | 1905 - 756 pages
...at his sweet will, or to the halcyon era of the old Greek teachers, of which Empedocles sings: — " What days were those, Parmenides ! When we were young,...cities like ourselves, When with elated hearts we joined our train, Ye sun-born virgins on the road to truth." It is more particularly on the younger... | |
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