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" Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears! Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years. Sink in thyself! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine! "
Religious Confessions and Confessants: With a Chapter on the History of ... - Page 10
by Anna Robeson Brown Burr - 1914 - 562 pages
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...! they cry. And yet their oracle, Trumpet it as they will, is but the same as thine. Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears !...thyself! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine ! What makes thee struggle and rave ? Why are men ill at ease ? — 'T is that the lot they have Fails...
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The Pulpit Analyst

Hodder and Stoughton - 1868 - 714 pages
...help from without there is none. A recent poet says :— " Once read thy own breast aright. And them hast done with fears ! Man gets no other light, Search...thyself: there ask What ails thee, at that shrine!" Another commends this as the gospel of self-sufficiency—"an evangel not to be cancelled or supplanted...
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...they cry; And yet their oracle, Trumpet it as they will, is but the same as thine. c a Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears !...thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine ! What makes thee struggle and rave? Why are men ill at ease ? — 'Tis that the lot they have Fails...
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The North British Review, Volumes 50-51

1869 - 1500 pages
...its powers ? Is it true, as Mr. Arnold represents Empedocles as saying — " Once read thy own heart right, And thou hast done with fears ; Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years " ? Must the force proceed from human nature itself, and its relation to this present state of being...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 22

1882 - 966 pages
...false where he finds nothing sure." The gospel of the writer is that of Stoicism : " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears; Man gets no other light, Search ho a thousand years." He repudiates all compromises such as that which had been offered by " In Memoriam...
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Essays and studies (chiefly repr. from the Fortnightly review).

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 pages
...soul, which oracles and miracles can neither make nor mar, can neither slay nor save. " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears. Man...thyself; there ask what ails thee, at that shrine." This is the gospel of avrapxua, the creed of self-sufficience, 1 which sees for man no clearer or deeper...
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Essays and Studies

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 404 pages
...soul, which oracles and miracles can neither make nor mar, can neither slay nor save. " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears. Man...thyself ; there ask what ails thee, at that shrine." This is the gospel of avrapKfia, the creed of self-sufficience,1 which sees for man no clearer or deeper...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 238

1875 - 804 pages
...wiser wight In his own bosom delves, And asks what ails him so, and gets what cure he can Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears ! Man gets no other light, Search he a hundred years. Sink in thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine ! It is to be feared that...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 91

1878 - 800 pages
...May'st see without dismay ; Ask what most helps when known, thou son of Anchitus. ***** Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears !...thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine ! ***** In vain our pent wills fret, And would the world subdue ! Limits we did not set Condition all...
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The University Magazine, Volume 1

1878 - 794 pages
...May'st see without dismay ; Ask what most helps when known, thou son of Anchitus. ***** Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears !...thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine ! ***** In vain our pent wills fret, And would the world subdue ! • Limits we did not set Condition...
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