O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife — Fly hence, our contact... Poems: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems - Page 211by Matthew Arnold - 1881Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1924 - 506 pages
...criticism was made, we believe, with a reference similar to that contained in Matthew Arnold's lines : ' in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran...life With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife ' — that is to say, when games were played for fun and for... | |
| 1896 - 854 pages
...poem, "The Scholar Gipsy," he breaks forth once more into the old note of condemnation and regret: — O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And...life With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'er-taxed, its palsied hearts, was rife, Fly hence, our contact fear! This is only half a stanza,... | |
| 1894 - 854 pages
...particular mood which is specially characteristic of Arnold. In the " Scholar Gipsy " he laments " the strange disease of modern life,'' With Its sick hurry, Its divided aims ; speaks of us " light half-believers of our casual creeds ; " tells how the wisest of us takes dejectedly... | |
| 1911 - 588 pages
...Countrymen.' B'IBORO. Matthew Arnold uses the phrase " sick hurry " in ' The Scholar-Gipsy,' stanza 21 : — This strange disease of modern life. With its sick hurry, its divided aim°. ALFRED ANSCOMBE. RVIKKS CENTENARY (11 S. iii. 306). — In the entry of the marriage of Robert... | |
| William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 pages
...his mourning notes over the perplexities and distracting influences thrust upon the heart and mind in this " Strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its head o'er-tasked, its palsied heart—" are apt to degenerate into mere bewailments. It is the part... | |
| William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...his mourning notes over the perplexities and distracting influences thrust upon the heart and mind in this " Strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its head o'er-tasked, its palsied heart—" are apt to degenerate into mere bewailments. It is the part... | |
| 1913 - 532 pages
...mechanism). Eucken does not wish to come before us as the scholar or the scientific recluse stricken with ' this strange disease of modern life With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts.' He is sensitive to the world-movement of to-day, over its whole surface.... | |
| 1878 - 794 pages
...Light half -believers of our casual creeds. Or again, from the sad and splendid " Scholar Gipsy" : — This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. "Who is not familiar with the epigrammatic passage from the samepoem? — Wandering between two worlds,... | |
| 1878 - 800 pages
...Light half-believers of our casual creeds. Or again, from the sad and splendid " Scholar Gipsy " : — This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. Who is not familiar with the epigrammatic passage from the same poem? — Wandering between two worlds,... | |
| 1885 - 478 pages
...Matthew Arnold's poems we find full expression of the thoughts and feelings which have their origin in " This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts." The unrest of our strenuous life — its disdainful rejection of nostrums... | |
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