 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 888 pages
...work, This was thy life upon earth. What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth? — Most men eddy about Here and there — eat and drink,...solitudes mild Of the midmost ocean, have swelled, Foam'd for a moment, and gone. And there are some, whom a thirst Ardent, unquenchable, fires, Not with... | |
 | 1917 - 734 pages
...of the countless ages which preceded it ! And this is ' their brief epitome.' One after another they Perish, and no one asks Who or what they have been ; More than he asks what waves In the midmost Ocean have swelled, Foamed for a moment and gone. Yes, gone : and for the most part 'their... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pages
...change and increasing standardization. What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth?— Most men eddy about Here and there— eat and drink....and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they diePerish;— and no one asks... | |
 | Charles S. Bryan - 1997 - 290 pages
...rest of us, sixty years — we, too, are with Bassett and his teachers, and No one asks Who or what we have been, More than he asks what waves, In the moonlit...solitudes mild Of the midmost ocean, have swelled, Foam'd for a moment, and gone.95 3 FIND MENTORS The Young Person's Friend Osier attributed his success... | |
 | Michael Bliss - 1999 - 622 pages
...of 'An Alabama Student' with lines from Matthew Arnold's 'Rugby Chapel': No one asks Who or what we have been, More than he asks what waves, In the moonlit...solitudes mild Of the midmost ocean, have swelled, Foam'd for a moment, and gone. One of the few measurable aspects of death was the attitude of people... | |
 | Jason Hudson - 2002 - 171 pages
...rest of your life hinges on this moment. THOMAS What is the course of life Of mortal men on the earth? Most men eddy about Here and there - eat and drink,...and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die Perish; — and no one asks... | |
 | R. Alan Culpepper - 2002 - 394 pages
...other vices. All of this explains the seething caldron of lost men who confront us in a pagan world. Most men eddy about Here and there — eat and drink,...and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die — Perish; — and no one... | |
 | F. Washington Jarvis - 2010 - 372 pages
...Matthew Arnold wrote about such people: What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth? — Most men eddy about Here and there — eat and drink,...and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and, then they die — Perish; and no one... | |
 | Sarah Ann Goebel - 2006 - 310 pages
...fulfillment. It may be that you feel about life the way Matthew Arnold describes in his poem "Rugby Chapel": Most men eddy about Here and there— eat and drink,...and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die—2 Do you feel at times... | |
 | E. B. Alston - 2006 - 184 pages
...you can do. None of us want to be what Matthew Arnold wrote in an elegy of an inconsequential man. Most men eddy about Here and there — eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate... . . . and then they die — Perish; and no one asks Who or what they have been. . . There is one other... | |
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Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die — Perish ; — and no one asks Who or what they have been, More than he asks what waves, In the moonlit solitudes mild Of the midmost ocean, have swelled, Foam'd for... 
