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" For early didst thou leave the world, with powers Fresh, undiverted to the world without, Firm to their mark, not spent on other things ; Free from the sick fatigue, the languid doubt, Which much to have tried, in much been baffled, brings. "
Poems: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems - Page 209
by Matthew Arnold - 1881
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...from age And living as thou liv'st on Glanvil's page, Because thou hadst — what we, alas, have not ! For early didst thou leave the world, with powers...idly without term or scope, Of whom each strives, ndr knows for what he strives, And each half lives a hundred different lives ; Who wait like thee,...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...from age And living as thou liv'st on Glanvil's page, Because thou hadst — what we, alas, have not! For early didst thou leave the world, with powers...without, Firm to their mark, not spent on other things j Free from the sick fatigue, the languid doubt, Which much to have tried, in much been baffled, brings....
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Dorothy: A Tale

Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - 332 pages
...Christian soldier," said Dorothy, thoughtfully, "having for a helmet the hope of salvation." CHAPTER XI. Powers Fresh, undiverted to the world without, Firm...other things: Free from the sick fatigue, the languid duubt, Which much to have trred, in much been baffled, brings — O Life, unlike to ours! Who fluctuate...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 49

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pages
...more advanced school of philosophical opinion, he has a ready sneer for those who lead " a life like ours:" — " Who fluctuate idly without term or scope,...whom each strives, nor knows for what he strives" for us, 526 Living English Poets. [Feb. " Light half-believers of our casual creeds, 'Who never deeply...
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Marquis and Merchant, Volume 3

Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 326 pages
...most of the modern poetry. Some of the expressions remain in my memory. Arnold complains of . . . ' the sick fatigue, the languid doubt, Which much to have tried, in much been baffled, brings.' A man must be made of very poor stuff to take life in that way. There's no ' sick fatigue ' nor ' languid...
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Victorian Poets, Volume 1

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 472 pages
...around Oxford, realize that the life of the vagrant " scholar poor " was finer than their own : — "For early didst thou leave the world, with powers...much been baffled, brings. O Life, unlike to ours ! " In after years Clough himself broke away somewhat from the trammels which these lines deplore....
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Scribners Monthly, Volume 7

1874 - 784 pages
...wanderings around Oxford, realize that the life of the vagrant " scholar poor " was finer than their own : " For early dids't thou leave the world, with powers...much been baffled, brings. O, Life, unlike to ours !" In after years, Clough himself broke away somewhat from the trammels which these lines deplore....
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 52

1885 - 566 pages
...children ; when the world will be a machine, the ether a gas, and God a force," we should all be— ' ' Free from the sick fatigue, the languid doubt, Which much to have tried, in much been baffled brings " — comfortably resting ourselves in the assurance of Socrates that, as the three wisest men in Greece...
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Poems. New and complete ed, Volume 2

Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 280 pages
...from age And living as thou liv'st on Glanvil's page, Because thou hadst — what we, alas ! have not For early didst thou leave the world, with powers Fresh, undiverted to the world without, Finn to their mark, not spent on other things ; Free from the sick fatigue, the languid doubt, Which...
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Victorian Poets, Volume 1

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 566 pages
...around Oxford, realize that the life of the vagrant " scholar poor " was finer than their own : — " For early didst thou leave the world, with powers...much been baffled, brings. O Life, unlike to ours ! " In after years Clough himself broke away somewhat from the trammels which these lines deplore....
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