...pacings to and fro, And the same vainly throbbing heart was there, And the same bright, calm moon. "And the calm moonlight seems to say: 'Hast thou then...But fluctuates to and fro, Never by passion quite pdssess'd And never quite benumb'd by the world's sway?' " He then turns to contemplate the two destinies...

...by early home-influence, and to seriousness by Tanner's Lane, he passed his life in a kind of limbo, 'never by passion quite possess'd, and never quite benumb'd by the world's sway'. In the Early Life he tells us, as George Eliot has also done, that 'at first, after the abandonment...

...calm moonlight" (26) ventriloquistically asks, Hast thou then still the old unquiet breast, WJiich neither deadens into rest, Nor ever feels the fiery...But fluctuates to and fro, Never by passion quite possessed And never quite benumbed by the world's sway? (26-33) Unlike the poetic speaker of "Human...

...pacings to and fro, And the same vainly throbbing heart was there, And the same bright, calm moon. And the calm moonlight seems to say: Hast thou then...But fluctuates to and fro, Never by passion quite possessed And never quite benumbed by the world's sway? And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what...

..."slaves or madmen " and " knows not what to pray for." " His own soul abides in mystery." There is ever " The old unquiet breast, Which neither deadens into...But fluctuates to and fro, Never by passion quite possessed, And never quite benumbed by the world's sway. He is " Here on a darkling plain Swept with...

...alarms of struggle and flight. Where ignorant armies clash by night." And in another place he says : "And the calm moonlight seems to say: ' Hast thou then still the same unquiet breast. Which neither deadens into rest, Nor ever feels the fiery glow That whirls the...