They wandered once; clear as the dew on flowers: But they fed not on the advancing hours: Their hearts held cravings for the buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer... With Friend and Book: In the Study and the Fields - Página 42por John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 84 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1905 - 726 páginas
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah ! what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horsa, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore. POEMS AND LYRICS. 1*83. • GEORGE MEREDITH. /.—... | |
| John Morley - 1907 - 966 páginas
...need not be prime minister to know the eternal tale of the vanity of human wishes, or how men move, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse To throw that faint thin line upon the shore. 1 Nor are things all one way. If we find Mr. Gladstone writing to the Queen of ' the excellent parliamentary... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1916 - 756 páginas
...conception. Even the most patient investigator, the most acute observer, must constantly feel "Oh, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life." If we refer to our Charter, we shall find that the aim of the Koyal Society is promoting Natural Knowledge... | |
| George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1906 - 266 páginas
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore ! — (L.) I fear that this rough outline and these broken quotations can give little idea of the splendour... | |
| George Meredith - 1906 - 488 páginas
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...certainties in this our life ! — In tragic hints hei,e see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 páginas
...day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. 10 Ah ! what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore. ASK, IS LOVE DIVINE Ask, is Love divine, Voices all are, Ay. Question for the sign, There's a common... | |
| John Morley - 1907 - 382 páginas
...here for the illustration they afford of what has just been said about Mr. Browning:— " Ah, what dusty answer gets the soul, When hot for certainties...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore J" 1 This is imaginative and sympathetic in thought as well as expression, and the truth and the image... | |
| Carl Snyder - 1907 - 520 páginas
...Cosmos is wide, cosmos is old, cosmos is kin. What holds it together ? CHAPTER XXXIII THE LAST RIDDLE Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life. GEORGE MEREDITH. CHAPTER XXXIII THE LAST RIDDLE THERE can never be in human knowledge any such thing... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1907 - 252 páginas
...unlikeuess to himself was a part of her attraction ; his only tie to her was the tie of instinct and faith. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life ! Once he begins to struggle with thought, he is in the labyrinth of the monster, and the day is lost.... | |
| Carl Snyder - 1907 - 520 páginas
...Cosmos is wide, cosmos is old, cosmos is kin. What holds it together ? CHAPTER XXXIII THE LAST RIDDLE Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life. GEORGE MEREDITH. CHAPTER XXXIII THE LAST RIDDLE THERE can never be in human knowledge any such thing... | |
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