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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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British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge ...

Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pages
...have the truth ! they cry ; And yet their oracle, Trumpet it as they will, is but the same as thine. brink Of obvious death, ln> a thousand years. Sink in thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine ! What makes thee...
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The Quarterly Record, Volume 1

Massachusetts General Hospital. Nurses Alumnae Association - 1911 - 184 pages
...which so many have mourned and suffered, really needs first of all that we set our house in order : "Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine!" And our profession is the one best fitted to show the force of this, because the field is ours, and...
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Religious Confessions and Confessants: With a Chapter on the History of ...

Anna Robeson Brown Burr - 1914 - 584 pages
...mystics or the self -analyzing philosophers, since all are moved by the same spirit. "Once read thine own breast right, And thou hast done with fears; Man...thyself! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine!" 1PAnd it is with the seekers at this shrine that we are here to deal. It would seem obvious that the...
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Religious Confessions and Confessants: With a Chapter on the History of ...

Anna Robeson Brown Burr - 1914 - 582 pages
...mystics or the self-analyzing philosophers, since all are moved by the same spirit. "Once read thine own breast right, And thou hast done with fears; Man...a thousand years. Sink in thyself! there ask what alls thee, at that shrine!" "• And it is with the seekers at this shrine that we are here to deal....
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Religious Confessions and Confessants: With a Chapter on the History of ...

Anna Robeson Brown Burr - 1914 - 580 pages
...self-analyzing philosophers, since all are moved by the same spirit. "Once read thine own breast right, And them hast done with fears; Man gets no other light, Search...a thousand years. Sink in thyself! there ask what alls thee, at that shrine!" « And it is with the seekers at this shrine that we are here to deal....
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Poet Lore, Volume 32

1921 - 720 pages
...often is heard in Empedocles' song in the second scene. Once read thy own breast right, And thou has done with fears; Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years. ***** And yet for those who know Themselves, who wisely take Their way through life, and bow To what...
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The Influence of the Classics on the Poetry of Matthew Arnold

Ralph Edward Cunliffe Houghton - 1923 - 48 pages
...earth, And fire repel us from its living waves.' ut elsewhere he is the mouthpiece of later Stoicism f ' Once read thy own breast right And thou hast done...Man gets no other light Search he a thousand years, nk in thyself ! there ask what ails thee at that shrine . . . Streams will not curb their pride The...
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English Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: A Connected Representation of ...

George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 pages
...have the truth! they cry; And yet their oracle, 140 Trumpet it as they will, is but the same as thine. Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years. 145 Sink in thyself! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine! What makes thee struggle and rave? Why...
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Selections from Matthew Arnold's Poetry

Matthew Arnold - 1928 - 236 pages
...expresses just the Stoic philosophy, which at greater length is put in the mouth of Empedocles, eg : " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself : there ask what ails thee, at that shrine." A SUMMER NIGHT (p. 60) Perhaps the best poem we have come to since The Forsaken Merman. " There is...
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The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1926 - 514 pages
...falsehood ; the soul, which oracles and miracles can neither make nor mar, can neither slay nor save : — Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears. Map gets no other light, Search he a thousand years. Sink in thyself ; there ask what ails thec, at...
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