 | Friedrich Paulsen - 1889 - 892 pages
...33îatti)eio Slrnolbâ (Poems II, 32, Empedocles on Etna): Is it во small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have...advanced true friends and beat down baffling foes? ©efüfyle finb nidjt waljr ober falfd); fíe finb ü£b,atfad)en, bie man analtypren unb erflären,... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - 1891 - 312 pages
...such lines as the following from a poem once withdrawn, afterward put forth with misgivings : — " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes? I say: Fear not ! Life still Leaves human effort scope. But, since life teems with ill, Nurse no extravagant... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1891 - 246 pages
...unto you, see that your souls live a deeper life than theirs !' He is no pessimist, but cries— ' Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ?' In one of his most despondent moods he is fain to conclude by declaring ' How fair a lot to fill... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...brotherhood. That which is great and beautiful suffices in itself, bears in itself its light and its flame. 5. Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes, — 6. That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while we dream on this, Lose all our... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 540 pages
...self-will, • Shall we judge what for man is not true bliss or is ? Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have...have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foesThat we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while we dream on this, Lose all our present... | |
 | Annie E. Holdsworth Hamilton - 1897 - 360 pages
...had cowered under the thorny gorse. The flame that encircled life had not consumed the joy of life. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun ? To...done ? To have advanced true friends, and beat down battling foes ? " She said the words smiling, and there was a bloom on her smile, the purple soft indefiniteness... | |
 | Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1898 - 418 pages
...finds it possible to contemplate the life already lived as its own sufficient reward ; which asks with Matthew Arnold : " Is it so small a thing To have...enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, 45 To have loved, to have thought, to have done, To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling... | |
 | Friedrich Paulsen, Frank Thilly - 1899 - 784 pages
...feelings of the poet, they are, of course, incontrovertible, — just as incontrovertible as the lines of Matthew Arnold: "Is it so small a thing To have...lived light in the Spring, To have loved, to have thonght, to have done ; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes ? " * Feelings are... | |
 | Friedrich Paulsen, Frank Thilly - 1899 - 772 pages
...as the lines of Matthew Arnold: .. Is it. 511 small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lired light in the Spring, To have loved, to have thought,...advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes ? " > Feelings are not true or false ; they are facts which can be analyzed and explained, which may... | |
 | Max Beresford - 1900 - 280 pages
...the years had lifted. Suddenly he broke into the words of a poem Philippa Joy was fond of repeating: "Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun? To...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done?" "What's that?" asked Miss Busybody. "That's the song of a man who grasps fame." "What's fame?" "Fame?... | |
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