...a truant boy, Nursing thy project in unclouded joy, And every doubt long blown by time away. 200 0 born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life...modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its head o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife — 205 Fly hence, our contact fear ! Still fly, plunge1...

...side, a truant boy, Nursing thy project in unclouded joy, And every doubt long blown by time away. O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And...modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, It heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife — Fly hence, our contact fear ! Still fly, plunge...

...natural gaiety was irrepressible, rejoicing in the present and not over anxious for the future, those days . . . when wits were fresh and clear, and life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames — this was the world which Chaucer entered into and interpreted with a kindliness, shrewdness, and...

...vicious."1 It is the condition here described which was presented by Matthew Arnold in another way, as "This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'erstocked, and its palsied hearts." It is education broadly conceived and liberally provided to which...

...constantly recurrent notes of "the something that infects the world," and distressed outcries against "this strange disease of modern life With its sick hurry, its divided aims." He looked, for an ideal, back to the Greek Sophocles, "who saw life steadily and saw it whole," or...

...life ran gaily on the sparkling Thames; Scholar Before this strange disease of modern life Gypsy." With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife." In fact, strange as it may appear, his way of looking at life seems more akin to that of the Greeks...

...life ran gaily on the sparkling Thames; Scholar Before this strange disease of modern life Gypsy." With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife." In fact, strange as it may appear, his way of looking at life seems more akin to that of the Greeks...

...country-side, a truant boy, Nursing thy project in unclouded joy, And every doubt long blown by time away. 10 O, born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gayly as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its...

...country-side, a truant boy, Nursing thy project in unclouded joy, And every doubt long blown by time away. O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And...modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Still fly, plunge deeper in the bowering wood ! Averse, as Dido did with gesture stern From her false...

...century may be made. Much of the greatest sculpture speaks of other days than ours. It tells of times " Before this strange disease of modern life, With its...Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife." MURRAY (Alexander Stuart). A History of Greek Sculpture (Illustrated). 1890 AMELUNG and HOLTZINGER....