...distinguished of our poets describes his country under the uncomplimentary figure of an aged Titan ' Staggering on to her goal, Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Well-nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate.' All this appears to us to be the weakness...

...Titan ' Staggering on to her goal, 't Bearing on shoulders immense, -u ' Atlantean, the load, Well-nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate.' i All this appears to us to be the weakness of fclf-consciousness. The national instinct of honour...

...her life Glory, and genius, and joy. So thou arraign'st her, her foe; So we arraign her, her sons. Yes, we arraign her! but she, The weary Titan, with...Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Wellnigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. But was it thou — I think Surely it was...

...represented by a passage from Matthew Arnold's poem on Heine's Grave, in which he speaks thus of England : Staggering on to her goal; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Well nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. The last line comes very near to the notion...

...experience of centuries. We should rather wonder at what was achieved by ' the weary Titan,' as we see her ' Staggering on to her goal Bearing on shoulders immense Atlantean, the load Well nigh not to be borne Of the too vast orb of her fate.' NOTE ON ROMAN SWITZERLAND1. There is no...

...passively by, Staggering on to her goal ; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Well-nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. But was it thou — I think Surely it was — that bard Unnamed, who, Goethe said, Had every other...

...her goal : 7,^ Bearing on shoulders immen«e, rvponsMlitia Atlantean, the load , £ land Well-nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. And certainly the figures he had given made one inclined to agree with these eloquent words of Mr....

...represented by a passage from Matthew Arnold's poem on Heine's Grave, in which he speaks thus of England: Staggering on to her goal; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Well nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. The last line comes very near to the notion...

...arraign her, her sons. Yes, we arraign her I but she, The weary Titan, with deaf Ears, and latyur-dimm'd eyes, Regarding neither to right Nor left, goes passively...Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Wellnigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. But was it thou — I think Surely it was...

...mounting has come up, will she be at the top of it ? Ilia nihil, nee me qucerentem vana moratur! " Yes, we arraign her ; but she, The weary Titan, with...Bearing, on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Wellnigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate." (A FRENCHMAN signing himself " Horace,"...