 | 1878 - 800 pages
...such sights May'st see without dismay ; Ask what most helps when known, thou son of Anchitus. ***** Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine ! ***** In vain our pent wills fret, And would the world subdue ! Limits we did not set Condition all... | |
 | 1878 - 794 pages
...such sights May'st see without dismay ; Ask what most helps when known, thou son of Anchitus. ***** Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine ! ***** In vain our pent wills fret, And would the world subdue ! • Limits we did not set Condition... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 396 pages
...have the truth! they cry; And yet their oracle, Trumpet it as they will, is but the same as thine. Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine. What makes thee struggle and rave? Why are men ill at ease?— 'Tis that the lot they have Fails their... | |
 | 1885 - 478 pages
...feel, day and night, The burden of ourselves ! Well, then, the wiser wight In his own bosom delves. Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years. " Then he turns to the theologic solution of the trouble and mystery of life, and scornfully rejects... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1879 - 456 pages
...Is it true, as Mr Arnold represents Empedocles as saying—- Once read thy own heart right, And them hast done with fears ; Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years ? Must the force proceed from human nature itself? or must it rather spring from a perception of our... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1880 - 538 pages
...Gewalt, die alle Wesen bindet, Befreit der Mensch sich, der sich uberwindet. GOETHE, Die Gcheimniisd Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine. MATTHEW ARNOLD, Empedocles on Etna. HAVING concluded his purely scientific analysis of the springs... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 342 pages
...oracle, Trumpet it as they will, is but the same as thine. Once read thy own breast right, And them hast done with fears; Man gets no other light, Search...thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine. What makes thee struggle and rave? Why are men ill at ease? — Tis that the lot they have Fails their... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1884 - 396 pages
...have the truth'! they cry; And yet their oracle, Trumpet it as they will, is but the same as thine. Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine. What makes thee struggle and rave? Why are men ill at ease? — 'Tis that the lot they have Fails their... | |
 | Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald - 1882 - 220 pages
...Love, with fiery accents calling, wakes the slumbering soul." — Epic of Hades. " Once read thine own breast right, and thou hast done with fears. Man...thyself; there ask what ails thee at that shrine." — Matthew Arnold. " Tis that the lot they have fails their own will to please." "Heaven is the vision... | |
 | P. F. FITZGERALD - 1882 - 220 pages
...things. Love, with fiery accents calling, wakes the slumbering soul."—Epic of Hades. " Once read thine own breast right, and thou hast done with fears. Man...thyself; there ask what ails thee at that shrine."— Matthew Arnold. " Tis that the lot they have fails their own will to please." "Heaven is the vision... | |
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears! Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years. Sink in thyself! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine! 
