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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! "
Matthew Arnold: Poet and Critic - Page 28
by Arnold Schrag - 1904 - 94 pages
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Poems. New and complete ed, Volume 3

Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 232 pages
...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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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 260

1886 - 646 pages
...supply the materials for the wrangling of the sects, and arrest the growth of the spiritual life : Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine. The neglect of this is why men have no calm. Lacking true perspective of things, right proportion,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 260

1886 - 624 pages
...only supply the materials for the wrangling of the sects, and arrest the growth of the spiritual life: Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thousand years. Sink in thyself ! there ask what ails thce, at that shrine. The neglect of this is why men have no calm. Lacking true perspective of things,...
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London Society, Volume 52

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1887 - 862 pages
...and heat worth gauge and measure. " Where he is, is the tropics. Where he is not, the ice world." " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...Sink in thyself ; there ask what ails thee, at that ahrin,,. ' UNFORGIVEN. BY MARY DEANE, AUTHOR OF " QUATBEFOIL," "ST. BRIAVELS," ETC. I MUST try to remember...
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Zeitschrift für vergleichende Litteraturgeschichte, Volume 15

Max Koch, Ludwig Geiger, Wilhelm Wetz, Joseph Collin, Philipp August Becker - 1904 - 498 pages
...to believe Sinee he sees nothing clear, And dares stamp nothing false where he finds nothing true. Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...a thousand years. Sink in thyself! there ask what aus thee, at that shrine! Fools! That in man's brief term He cannot all things view, Affords no ground...
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Essays and Studies

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1888 - 464 pages
...miracles can neither make nor mar, can neither slay nor save. " Once read thy own breast right, And limn hast done with fears. Man gets no other light, Search...thyself; there ask what ails thee, at that shrine." This is the gospel of abrapEiia, the creed of self-sufficience, 1 which sees for man no clearer or...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 168

1888 - 618 pages
...verse. Self-knowledge is still the summary of his creed. There is no revelation from without. But ' Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears ; Man gets no Oli«er light, Search he a thousand years.' And such self-kuowledge leads to self-dependence, and selfdependence...
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Dramatic and later poems

Matthew Arnold - 1889 - 292 pages
...their oracle, Trumpet it as they will, is but the same as thine. > /Once read thy own breast right, v ( And thou hast done with fears ; Man gets no other...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...
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Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...

Joseph Forster - 1890 - 192 pages
...Where he is, is the tropics. Where he is not, the ice world." " Once read thy own breast right, Aud thou hast done with fears. Man gets no other light,...thyself ; there ask what ails thee, at that shrine." NOTE. The Birniinghumt Daily Post, October 29th, 1887, referring to my paper on " John Ruskin," said,...
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Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...

Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...Where he is not, the ice world." '' Once read thy own breast right, And thou ha&t done with fours. Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years."...thyself ; there ask what ails thee, at that shrine." NOTE. The Birmingham Daily Post, October '29th, 1887, referring to my paper on "John Kuskin," said,...
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