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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, — That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And. while... "
The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works - Page 75
by Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1926
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...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 have lived light...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...
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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 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...
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Old and New, Volume 5

1872 - 842 pages
...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 have lived light...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...
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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
...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 have lived light...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...
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The City of London school magazine

London city of Lond. sch - 1877 - 340 pages
...deny, and there is a delight in mere physical existence that is not of the century. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done." But there are other qualities that have struck some people as proper, not so much to a renaissance...
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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...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...
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The Melbourne Review, Volume 10, Issues 37-40

1885 - 478 pages
...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 have lived light...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...
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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 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...
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Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...encounter with courage and to bear with fortitude the brief ills of this brief life: 'Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun; To have lived light...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...
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