 | 1878
...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 - 370 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
...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 - 426 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 - 467 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
...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 - 370 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 - 196 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
...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885
...have the truth ! they cry ; And yet their oracle, Trumpet it as they will, is but the same as thina 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 t Why are men ill at ease 1 — Tis that the lot they have Fails... | |
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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! 
