...striking poems Matthew Arnold speaks of England as The weary Titan, with deaf Ears, and labor-dimmed eyes, 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. It is not the poet's mind alone which is...

...beyond even the strength of "The weary Titan, Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load Wellnigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate." Our greatest living philosopher tells us that Progress is not continuous, but rhythmic, like the waves...

...deaf Ears, and labour-dimmed eyes * * * * Bearing on shoulders immense Atlantean, the load, Well nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate." But look back, 0 friends and fellow-countrymen, over a 233 hundred years, and remembering what we have...

...has come up, will she be at the ! top of it 1 Ilia nihil, nee me quterentem vana rrwratur! — ' ' 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,"...

...wirden which our country has taken on itself— that \ C.. ! \. "O /^ ' T \. t \ t; .C. ' "Weary 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." We often talk of our Indian Empire. What...

...fine result may be obtained, it strikes one as an experimental, not a natural, mode of expression. ' Yes, we arraign her ! but she, The weary Titan, with...left goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal.' One wants him to go back to ' Thyrsis.' But in Tennyson, with the infinite variety of his moods, harmony...

...England : Staggering on to her goal; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlanteän, 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 of 'urgentibus fatis,' in which the ideas of a heavy pressure...

...all remember the description of England, the " Weary Titan," who with deaf " Ears, and labor-dimmed eyes, Regarding neither to right Nor left, goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal," etc. and a phrase which tells us how the spirit of the world, beholding men's absurdity, let a sardonic...

...sets. The " weary Titan " is bracing herself up, and squaring her shoulders under the load " Almost not to be borne Of the too vast orb of her fate." For my part, I do not envy the man who dwells in spirit on so high a hill-top that he can witness this...

...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...