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" CREEP into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! all stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still.... "
The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family - Page 3
by Bertram Wyatt-Brown - 1996 - 504 pages
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 896 pages
...contemplated his discomfiture, Matthew Arnold's lines rose unbidden to my lips : They out-talk'd thee, hiss'd thee, tore thee ? Better men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged — and sank at last. It needed only the substitution of ' She ' for...
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Frank Leslie's Ladies' Magazine, Volume 41

Frank Leslie - 1877 - 432 pages
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still! They out-talked thee, hissed thee, tore thee. Better men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged — and broke at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the...
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Tinsley's Magazine, Volume 20

1877 - 688 pages
...Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will ; Thou art tired ; best be still. They out-talked thee, hissed thee. tore thee? Better men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and passed; Hotly charged— and broke at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the...
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still. They out-talk'd thee, hiss'd thee, tore thee? Better men fared thus before thee! Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged—and broke at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors,...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will ! Thou art tired ; best be still ! They out-talked thee, hissed thee, tore thee. Better men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged, — and broke at hist. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1878 - 578 pages
...are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will ! Thou art tired ; best be still. ' They out-talked thee, hissed thee, tore thee ? Better men fared thus before thee ! Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged — and broke at last. ' Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the...
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Poems by Matthew Arnold: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 328 pages
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 396 pages
...geese. Let them have it how they will ! Thou art tired; best be still. They out-talk'd thee, hiss'd thee, tore thee? Better men fared thus before thee; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged—and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumbl Let the victors,...
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Agnosticism Versus Dogmatism

F. Sydney Morris - 1884 - 106 pages
...cause of truth and progress, let us be encouraged by those other words — They out-talked thee, hiss'd thee, tore thee ; Better men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged,and sank at last. Charge once more then, and be dumb, Let the victors...
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