| 1896 - 854 pages
...conclusion; and, even in such a poem as "A Southern Night," we are again admonished that We see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess one soul Before we die. Surely It would not be difficult to show that, as a criticism of life, the... | |
| Henry Allon - 1884 - 548 pages
...troops, with care-filled breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle...by ; And never once possess our soul Before we die. Professor Seeley may well raise the question whether a civilization of this shallow, noisy, weary kind... | |
| Adelaide Anne Procter - 1861 - 374 pages
...troops, with care-fill'd breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And see all sights from Pole to Pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle...by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. Xot by those hoary Indian Hills, Not by this gracious Midland Sea Whose floor to-night sweet moonshine... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...troops, with care-filled breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle...soul Before we die. Not by those hoary Indian hills, Some sage, to whom the world was dead, And men were specks, and life a play; Who made the roots of... | |
| 1868 - 596 pages
...are several deeply reflective and captivating verses in it, and wholesome truths. And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle...by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. " Youth's Agitations," and " Growing Old," are infected with morbidity. Unless schooled by religion... | |
| Dawson William Turner - 1874 - 130 pages
...troops, with care-fill'd breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle...to-night sweet moonshine fills, Should our graves be ! VIH. — Translate into Greek Iambics. This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness,... | |
| 1875 - 844 pages
...troops, with care-filled breast The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East. And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle...by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. And almost every man, however practical, feels this obscurely ; has a notion that his own life is a... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - 424 pages
...have given our souls away, a sordid boon ;" or, in which, as another expresses it, we " See all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle...; And never once possess our soul Before we die." 3. Now to both these common characters this text offers an antidote; to the self-satisfied, a confidence... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - 424 pages
...given our souls away, a sordid boon ; " or, in which, as another expresses it, we " See all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle...; And never once possess our soul Before we die." 3. Now to both these common characters this text offers an antidote ; to the self-satisfied, a confidence... | |
| 1877 - 574 pages
...context is a* ollows, speaking of the restlessness of modern Englishnen : — " And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle...by; And never once possess our soul Before we die." Vot " Until we die," which quite spoils the sense. J. LEICESTER WARRES. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Uittory... | |
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