Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life... Emerson at Home and Abroad - Page 98by Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 309 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1868 - 846 pages
...fathers were coûtent with their pin-hole views of the universe. Nevertheless, he has already learned — What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life ! Christendom has now become a vast readingroom, and its library is chiefly remarkable for its miscellaneous... | |
| 1869 - 776 pages
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| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 pages
...unusual. He was looking with a beaming eye along the path that lay before us through a thicket. "Where?"! asked. "Did you see it?" he said, now moving on. "...through the dark wolds of early life, have been guided from it by the tones of Concordia (to remember Schiller's "Bell") ; but we may not have considered... | |
| William Sharp - 1886 - 424 pages
...day. Then each applied to each the fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life 1 — In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering... | |
| F. A. H. Eyles - 1889 - 416 pages
...day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life ! — In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering... | |
| Richard Le Gallienne - 1890 - 278 pages
...day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life ! In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like... | |
| George Meredith - 1891 - 136 pages
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| John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 192 pages
...Dumb harmony without. " His song may sometimes be heavily burdened, as in the following : — " Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life ! In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like... | |
| 1895 - 676 pages
...and incomplete ? The individual's craving for completion is not satisfied in the way he wishes. "Ah, what a dusty answer gets the Soul When hot for certainties in this our life — In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force Thundering like... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 pages
...married human nature. The poet sums up their pitifulness in two lines of the closing sonnet: — "Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!" The series is rich in poetry. George Meredith might be remembered if he had written nothing else but... | |
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