This is the curse of life ! that not A nobler, calmer train Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must And not because we will. The Cornhill Magazine - Seite 370herausgegeben von - 1867Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Rathbone Greg - 1873 - 366 Seiten
...wiser thoughts and feelings blot Our passions from our brain. " But each day brings its petty dust, OUT soon choked souls to fill ; And we forget because...temples of Egypt or the tombs of the Campagna, not controlled, transmuted, reasoned down. It is the same, too, usually with our faults. " Time " cures... | |
| 1875 - 804 Seiten
...and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. But this is not prosaic. It does not, indeed, read as if it woe written spontaneously, and it comes... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - 1876 - 370 Seiten
...that not A nobler, calmer train Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot Our passions from our brain. " But each day brings its petty dust, Our soon choked souls...temples of Egypt or the tombs of the Campagna, not controlled, transmuted, reasoned down. It is the same, too, usually with our faults. " Time " cures... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1878 - 578 Seiten
...expressed is expressed once for all. Such a stanza as ' But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will,' takes us back from the age of word-painting and novel combinations in language and rhythm, of superabundant... | |
| Emily Fox - 1878 - 296 Seiten
...sobbed and cried like a child. CHAPTER VIII. " But each day brings its petty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will." MATTHEW ARNOLD. r I ""HE condition of absent-minded listlessness into which Allegra began to fall,... | |
| 1885 - 478 Seiten
...and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. " A painful truth, no doubt, which few — only a very happy few — will venture to deny ; but obviously... | |
| Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster - 1879 - 354 Seiten
...of his life. CHAPTER XXX. A FEAST OF LANTERNS. . . ' Each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.' M. ARNOLD. CHAPTER XXX. DR. FAIRLIE went down to Norwood by an afternoon train. He found Magdalen at... | |
| 1880 - 592 Seiten
...and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must And not because we will.' But we can will not to forget ; ' we can set a watch on our constancy,' as I have already quoted George... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1880 - 476 Seiten
...and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.' Poems, ' Absence,' p. 198. So also Cicero speaks of ' prima in animis, quasi virtutum igniculi ct semina.'... | |
| 1898 - 514 Seiten
...Silver Lining. WM. TATLOCK, zd, WILLIAMS, '88. "But each day brings its petty dust "Our soon-choked souls to fill, " And we forget because we must, "And not because we will. — MATHEW ARNOLD. Each day its petty dust doth bring : Each day the linnets sweetly sing : And yet... | |
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