| 1886 - 922 pages
...the Eastern conquests of Rome, in the second of the two poems on the Author of " Obermann" : — " In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, The Roman noble...Way. " He made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crown'd his hair with flowers — No easier nor no quicker pass'd The impracticable houn. " The brooding... | |
| 1886 - 860 pages
...after the Eastern conquests of Rome, in the second of the two poems on the author of "Obermann :" — In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, The Roman noble...Appian Way. He made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crown'd his hair with flowers — No easier nor no quicker pass'd The impracticable hours. The brooding... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1887 - 360 pages
...conquests of Rome, in III MATTHEW ARNOLD 133 the second of the two poems on the Author of Obermann:— "In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, The Roman noble...Way. '' He made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crown'd his hair with flowers— No easier nor no quicker pass'd The impracticable hours. '' The brooding... | |
| Sir William Muir - 1887 - 374 pages
...hall, with haggard eyes, The noble Roman lay, — He drove abroad in furious guiae Along the Appiau Way ; He made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crowned his hair with flowers — No easier and no quicker passed The impracticable hours. M. Kenan's testimony... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 pages
...Here on its bed of pain ;" who could describe the Roman noble's miserable unrest so vividly : — " In his cool hall with haggard eyes The Roman noble...made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crowned his hair with flowers : No easier nor no quicker passed The impracticable hours ;" — the poet who touched... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1888 - 504 pages
...Pagan world disgust And secret loathing fell ; Deep weariness and sated lust Made human life a hell. " In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, The Roman noble...way ; " He made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crown'd his hair with flowers — No easier nor no quicker pass'd The impracticable hours. " The brooding... | |
| John Fordyce (M.A.) - 1888 - 236 pages
...Pagan world disgust And secret loathing fell. Deep weariness and sated lust Made human life a hell. " In his cool hall with haggard eyes The Roman noble...way. " He made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crown'd his hair with flowers — No easier, nor no quicker pass'd The impracticable hours." A WORLD... | |
| Honoré de Balzac, George Frederic Parsons - 1889 - 384 pages
...world disgust And secret loathing fell ; Deep weariness and sated lust Made human life a hell. " ln his cool hall, with haggard eyes, The Roman noble...made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crowned his hair with flowers; No easier nor no quicker passed The impracticable hours. " The brooding East with... | |
| Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 402 pages
...Pagan world disgust And secret loathing fell. Deep weariness and sated lust Made human life a hell. In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, The Roman noble...made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crowned his hair with flowers — The brooding East with awe beheld Her impious younger world. The Roman tempest... | |
| Irène Hardy - 1890 - 188 pages
...wills fret, And would the world subdue ; Limits we did not set Condition all we do. MATTHEW ARNOLD. 21. In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, The Roman noble...made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crowned his hair with flowers, — No easier nor no quicker passed The impracticable hours. MATTHEW ARNOLD. I want... | |
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