 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 364 pages
...; Nor does being weary prove that he has where to rest. " Once read thy own breast right, And thon hast done with fears ; Man gets no other light Search...thyself ! There ask what ails thee, at that shrine." Self-dependence man's only strength — such is the grave summary of Empedocles. The English poet,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 380 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 194 pages
...Empedocles in stanzas which testify to the strong influence which the philosophy of Goethe had over him : " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears ; Han gets no other light, Search he a thousand years. Sink in thyself ! there ask what ails thee,... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - 1897 - 314 pages
...man,' he says, — ' No man can save his brother's soul, Or pay his brother's debt.' And again : — ' Once read thy own breast right And thou hast done with fears ; Man gets no other light, Live he a thousand years.' And then, as a relief to these feelings, he turns constantly to another... | |
 | William Norman Guthrie - 1897 - 376 pages
...own breast right, And thou luist done with fears ; * Resignation, p. 57. t Empedocles on Ktna, p. *23 Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years. Sink in thyself ! There ask what ailn thee at that shrine." • We are, so far as can be ascertained, the only " Bafflers of our own... | |
 | 1899 - 828 pages
...early, or too late." Matthew Arnold, having broken from the environments of church dogmas, sang: ' ' Once read thy own breast right. And thou hast done...thyself! there ask What ails thee — at that shrine." It is but fair to myself and my subject that I say just here that this discipline for the unfolding... | |
 | Edward Caird - 1899 - 424 pages
...Buddha, Socrates called upon men to be their own deliverers : "Once read thine own breast right, And them hast done with fears, Man gets no other light, Search...thyself ! There ask what ails thee, at that shrine." 1 Socrates, indeed, did not set the subjective against the objective. On the contrary, according to... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1899 - 468 pages
...iiberwindet. Once read thy own breast right, GOZTHZ, Die Gehe'smnisse. And thou hast done with fears j Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years....thyself! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine. MATTHEW AHNOLD, Empeciocles on Etna. HAVING concluded his purely scientific analysis of the springs... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - 1901 - 242 pages
...Let us see. Matthew Arnold was certainly directed by none of the dogmas of religion when he wrote : " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself ! there ask What ails thee — at that shrine." He wrote this from the center. He knew the world was not yet ready for it, because he was a teacher... | |
 | 1901 - 1002 pages
...to believe Since he sees nothing clear, And dares stamp nothing i'alsc where he finds nothing tnie. Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...no other light, Search he a thousand years. Sink in thy seif! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine! Foola! That in man's briet' teviii He cannot all... | |
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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! 
