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" The Gods are happy. They turn on all sides Their shining eyes : And see, below them, The Earth, and men. '> They see Tiresias Sitting, staff in hand, On the warm, grassy Asopus' bank : His robe drawn over His old, sightless head : Revolving inly The doom... "
Scribner's Magazine - Page 687
edited by - 1924
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 39

1849 - 778 pages
...Sitting in the dark ship On the foamless, long-heaving, Violet sea : At sunset nearing The Happy Islands. These things, Ulysses, The wise bards also Behold...sing. But, oh, what labour ! О prince, what pain ! In this beautiful passage, which might be a fragment from a lost play of .iEschylus, we are at once...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 298 pages
...cities Inland, or built By the grey sea. — If so, then hail I honour and welcome thee. THE YOUTH. The Gods are happy. They turn on all sides Their shining eyes : And see, below them, The Earth, and men. '> They see Tiresias Sitting, staff in hand, On the warm, grassy Asopus' bank : His robe drawn over...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...cities Inland, or built By the gray sea. — If so, then hail ! I honor and welcome thee. THE YOUTH. The Gods are happy. They turn on all sides Their shining eyes : And see, below them, The Earth, and men. They see Tiresias Sitting, staff in hand, On the warm, grassy Asopus" bank: His robe drawn over His...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...Sitting in the dark ship On the foamless, long-heaving, Violet sea: At sunset nearing The Happy Islands. These things, Ulysses, The wise Bards also Behold and sing. But oh, what labor ! O Prince, what pain ! • They too can see Tiresias : — but the Gods, Who give them vision,...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 350 pages
...Sitting in the dark ship On the foamless, long-heaving, Violet sea : At sunset nearing The Happy Islands. These things, Ulysses, The wise Bards also Behold and sing. But oh, what labor ! O Prince, what pain ! They too can see Tiresias : — but the Gods, Who give them vision, Added...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18

1866 - 808 pages
...dust of a Triumph rising in clouds of glory. We look at that past, feeling something like gods, too. " The gods are happy : They turn on all sides Their...shining eyes. And see. below them, The earth and men." We cannot consider those things happening remotely from us on the earth's surface, even now, without...
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Saint Pauls, Volume 11

1872 - 760 pages
..."Heine's Grave." We select a passage from the firstaiamed of these fine poems : — THE YOUTH (loquitur). The gods are happy ; They turn on all sides Their...shining eyes, And see, below them, The earth and men. * Matthew Browne. They See Teresias Sitting, staff in hand, On the warm grassy Asopos' bank, His robe,...
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Saint Pauls [afterw.] The Saint Pauls magazine, ed. by A. Trollope, Volume 11

Anthony Trollope - 1872 - 758 pages
..."Heine's Grave." We select a passage from the first-named of these fine poems : — THE YOUTH (loquitur). The gods are happy ; They turn on all sides Their...shining eyes, And see, below them, The earth and men. They see Teresias Sitting, staff in hand, On the warm grassy Asopus' bank, His robe, drawn over His...
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Master-spirits

Robert Buchanan - 1874 - 424 pages
...passage from the first-named of these fine poems : — THE YOUTH (loquitur). The gods are happy ; k They turn on all sides Their shining eyes, And see below them, The earth and men. They see Teresias Sitting, staff in hand, On the warm grassy Asopus' bank, His robe, drawn over His...
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In the C. P.: Or, Sketches in Prose & in Verse Descriptive of Scenes and ...

Louis Kossuth Lawrie - 1881 - 230 pages
...it has got to the top, and with taking such relish of the eye and of religious emotion as it can — "The gods are happy, They turn on all sides Their...eyes And see, below them The earth, and men." These reflections are perhaps inappropriate to the place ; for they are born of secular freedom of thought,...
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